Prison of Women - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prison of Women write by Tomasa Cuevas. This book was released on 1998-07-16. Prison of Women available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Prison of Women presents oral testimonies of women incarcerated following the Spanish Civil War. The primary voice in the collection, Tomasa Cuevas, spent many years in prisons throughout Spain as a political prisoner. After the death of Franco in 1975, Cuevas began to collect oral testimonies from women she had known in prison as she traveled throughout Spain recording their stories. These, along with hers, eventually were published in three volumes in Spain. Prison of Women is a collaboration between Tomasa Cuevas and Mary E. Giles, translator and editor, who wrote the introduction and afterword, and provided contextual information in notes and a glossary. The testimonies offer a compelling record of the years leading up to the Spanish Civil War, the aftermath of that horrendous struggle, and a revealing testament to the strength of the human spirit.
Women Behind Bars
Women Behind Bars - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women Behind Bars write by Silja Talvi. This book was released on 2007-11-02. Women Behind Bars available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An award-winning investigative journalist examines increasing rates of women imprisonment in today's America, in a report that draws on interviews with inmates, correctional officers, and administrators to offer insight into the societal impact of female incarceration. Original.
Inside This Place, Not of It
Inside This Place, Not of It - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Inside This Place, Not of It write by Ayelet Waldman. This book was released on 2017-07-25. Inside This Place, Not of It available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “Essential reading” on some of the most egregious human rights violations within women’s prisons in the United States (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black) Here, in their own words, thirteen women recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their harrowing struggle for survival once insides. Among the narrators: Theresa, who spent years believing her health and life were in danger, being aggressively treated with a variety of medications for a disease she never had. Only on her release did she discover that an incompetent prison medical bureaucracy had misdiagnosed her with HIV. Anna, who repeatedly warned apathetic prison guards about a suicidal cellmate. When the woman killed herself, the guards punished Anna in an attempt to silence her and hide their own negligence. Teri, who was sentenced to up to fifty years for aiding and abetting a robbery when she was only seventeen. A prison guard raped Teri, who was still a teenager, and the assaults continued for years with the complicity of other staff.
The Women's House of Detention
The Women's House of Detention - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Women's House of Detention write by Hugh Ryan. This book was released on 2023-05-09. The Women's House of Detention available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century. The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur--were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women's prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher. Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired.
Memoirs from the Women's Prison
Memoirs from the Women's Prison - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memoirs from the Women's Prison write by Nawāl Saʻdāwī. This book was released on 1994-11-18. Memoirs from the Women's Prison available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "If Kafka had been a feminist, his prisoner might have had Nawal el Sa'adawi's feistiness, maybe, like her, he would have hoed a prison garden, led veiled and unveiled cellmates in rebellious calisthenics, strategized with a murderess to foil state illogic. This book gives me hope, even makes me laugh."—Cynthia Enloe, author of The Morning After
