A World Apart: Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
Women, Prison, and Life Behind Bars
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- Paperback
279 pages
- Release Date
15 September 2006
Summary
"Life in a women‘s prison is full of surprises," writes Cristina Rathbone in her landmark account of life at MCI-Framingham. And so it is. After two intense court battles with prison officials, Rathbone gained unprecedented access to the otherwise invisible women of the oldest running women’s prison in America. The picture that emerges is both astounding and enraging. Women reveal the agonies of separation from family, and the prevalence of depression, and of sexual predatio…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780812971095 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0812971094 |
| Author: | Cristina Rathbone |
| Publisher: | Random House Trade |
| Imprint: | Random House US |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 279 |
| Release Date: | 15 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 376g |
| Dimensions: | 20mm x 132mm x 204mm |
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Critics Review
“Cristina Rathbone is a fearless journalist, not only because she spent five years talking to women inmates at Framingham, but because she would not let the authorities keep her from telling the close-up truth about the lives of women in prison. This book will alter the way we think about the mothers, daughters, wives, and sisters our society has forgotten.” -Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues “The crimes committed by American women do not justify the crimes now being committed against them in our prisons. Cristina Rathbone has written a powerful book about the cruelty of this system, full of eloquence, dark humor, and compassion.” -Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
“This is an important, hard-won book, throughout which the deepest meanings of commitment come to bear: the unjust commitment of women to our nation’s prisons, the women’s commitment to their families and the risks of hope, and, as strikingly, Cristina Rathbone’s commitment to her profession and her craft.” -Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family
“A World Apart should be required reading for all Americans, and especially those concerned about gender and justice. Through compelling narratives of inmate lives, interspersed with historical background, Rathbone exposes the high personal and social costs of poverty, violence, and sexual coercion. Beautifully presented, these stories provide both raw and tender accounts of institutional life, documenting as well women’s struggles to break the cycle of institutionalization. The contrast between historical episodes of prison reform and the contemporary disaster of women’s prisons will sadden and should enrage readers.” -Estelle B. Freedman, Edgar E. Robinson professor of U.S. history, Stanford University, author of Their Sisters’ Keepers: Women’s Prison Reform in America, 1830–1930
Cristina Rathbone
Cristina Rathbone has written for numerous magazines and newspapers, including the New York Daily News and The Miami Herald. Her last book, “On the Outside Looking In: A Year in an Inner-City High School,” was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the New York Public Library. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, with her two young children.
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