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“Ain’T No Real Pimps Out There No More”: Street-Involved Women’S Characterizations Of Men Who Facilitate Street-Based Sex Work, Susan Dewey, Rhett Epler
“Ain’T No Real Pimps Out There No More”: Street-Involved Women’S Characterizations Of Men Who Facilitate Street-Based Sex Work, Susan Dewey, Rhett Epler
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Drawing upon five years of ethnographic research with over 100 Denver, Colorado women involved in street‐based sex work and drug use, this paper explores what the women's discursive framings of men who facilitate women's sex work activities reveal about the exclusionary social and criminal justice practices that shape their lives.
Editorial, Helen Codd
Editorial, Helen Codd
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
Research from many countries has documented the experiences of imprisoned women, who are always a minority within criminal justice and penal systems created and dominated by men. This increasingly substantial research literature has identified the challenges and difficulties faced by women prisoners, many of whom are separated from their children, and has documented the manifold difficulties experienced by women on release and afterwards (Fair, 2009; O’Brien, 2001). Some of these studies have documented not only women’s difficulties in the prison environment but also their strategies of coping and resistance, many researchers adopting qualitative methodologies which prioritise women prisoners’ own voices …
When Words Mean A Lot: The Experiences Of Female Prisoners In Senegal And The Effects Of Their Incarceration On Their Families, Dior Konate
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This study offers an in-depth examination of the impact of women's incarceration on families in Senegal. It outlines the historical background, delineates the problem areas in the impact of the incarceration of female offenders, and discusses the re-creation of family relationships in a context of survival or accommodation of prison life.
My Mom Is Badder Than Yours: Women Prisoners Demand Better Conditions For Motherhood Behind Bars, Meg Escude, Victoria Law
My Mom Is Badder Than Yours: Women Prisoners Demand Better Conditions For Motherhood Behind Bars, Meg Escude, Victoria Law
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This article examines the treatment of mothers and children incarcerated in the United States and Argentina; it discusses the strategies of resistance, activism and advocacy adopted by imprisoned mothers in both countries and subsequent changes in law, policy and practice.
Women And Imprisonment In Ireland, 1922-2007, Jessica Breen
Women And Imprisonment In Ireland, 1922-2007, Jessica Breen
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This article explores the changing profile of female prisoners in Ireland from 1922 to the present and places the imprisonment of women in Ireland in an historical context, attempting to understand the declining rate of imprisonment for women for most of the 20th century in order to contextualize recent increases in the female prison population.
Review Essay Of Books On Women In Prison, Mechthild Nagel
Review Essay Of Books On Women In Prison, Mechthild Nagel
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
As law professor Michelle Alexander has eloquently stated in her acclaimed book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Color Blindness (2010), we live in times that vastly over incarcerate people of color, and as the term Jim Crow suggests, particularly people of African descent. Scholars and activists have taken note and in the following some recent work on historical and contemporary perspectives of people incarcerated in women’s prisons will be discussed. My review is informed by a penal abolition worldview, which ultimately demands a transformative justice approach worldwide. The texts here under review are limited to …
Women, Families And Imprisonment In South Africa, Wfm Luyt, N Dupreez
Women, Families And Imprisonment In South Africa, Wfm Luyt, N Dupreez
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
This article presents, analyses and discusses the results of a quantitative study of the circumstances, needs and experiences of women imprisoned in several correctional centres in South Africa, discussing a range of issues including penal policies and practices and human rights, concluding with the view that current provision is failing both women and South African society.
Review Of Conflict-Related Sexual Violence: International Law, Local Responses By Susan Dewey And Tonia St Germain, Eds., Kumarian Press, 2012., Olivera Simic
Wagadu: A Journal of Transnational Women's & Gender Studies
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