Rebecca M Rodriguez Carey: Birth Behind Bars
Birth Behind Bars
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- The Carceral Control of Pregnant Women
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- New York University Press, 06/2025
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781479815814
- Umfang: 272 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin: 17.6.2025
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How incarcerated women, especially poor women and women of color, have their pregnancies and motherhood surveilled, regulated, and controlledFour percent of incarcerated women-more than three thousand-are pregnant in US prisons each year, yet little information is known about their pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and motherhood experiences. In Birth Behind Bars, Rebecca M. Rodriguez Carey draws on in-depth interviews with women who were once pregnant in prisons in the heart of the Midwest to provide a rare, intimate portrait into the intersection of motherhood and incarceration.
Using a reproductive-justice framework and narrative accounts, Rodriguez Carey shows how the prison system works alongside other carceral systems, such as the medical system and the child welfare system, to regulate and control women. She reveals how their incarceration goes beyond the function of criminal punishment, threatening both maternal and fetal health and the well-being of families. Birth Behind Bars offers an evocative account of how these powerful carceral systems collectively disrupt entire families and communities during pregnancy, birth, and the postpartum period, including long after women are released from prison.