A large proportion
- and in many jurisdictions the majority - of incarcerated women are
mothers. Popular attention is often paid to challenges faced by
children of incarcerated mothers while incarcerated women themselves
often do not "count" as mothers in mainstream discourse. This
anthology will explore complex issues relating to incarcerated
mothers, from connections between mothering and incarceration,
through criminalization of motherhood to understanding experiences
of mothers in prison.
This book will
examine how incarcerated mothers are ascribed identities, and
especially how society scripts ??of the mother role and counts as a
good or real mother in Western patriarchal society. t this
preceeding sentence still vague/ackward; please reviseWe encourage submissions that
interrogate popular discourses about mothering, virtue and
criminalization and especially those that focus on resistance and
agency by incarcerated mothers.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited
to:
-health
of mothers in prison -,- experiences of mothers
in prison, -representations of incarcerated mothers in popular
culture - prison narratives by and about mothers- history of
incarcerated mothers- public policy- the law, - stated above -
Criminalization of pregnancy and motherhood -constructing
identities - survival patterns as incarcerated
mothers- negative cultural portrayals of mothers who are
criminalized - relationship of patriarchal
discursive systems to portrayals of incarcerated mothers -
Incarcerated mothers in the press and other mainstream cultural
media - adolescent incarcerated mothers - race, class, ethnicity and
incarcerated mothers - foster families and incarcerated mothers-
mother and caregiver relationships - mothers after incarceration -
transitioning from carceral settings to the community - Lesbian,
Bisexual, Transgendered and Transsexual incarcerated mothers -
gender identity, criminalization and the social construction of
motherhood
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