Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison
A Sociology book. This book is based on Comfort's doctoral dissertation. She studied the lives of women whose...
By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation’s two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? Doing Time Together vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fiancés, and boyfriends on the inside.Megan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the...
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 256 pages
- ISBN: 9780226114637 / 226114635
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This book is based on Comfort's doctoral dissertation. She studied the lives of women whose significant other was imprisoned in San Quentin. She discusses such issues as how the lives of the women are affected in terms of finances and living situation as well as how they too in some respects become part of the prison system having to... The good, the bad, and the ugly:The good--The subject matter of this book was really intriguing. It focused on the women of male inmates and how their incarceration affects them emotionally, physically, economically, and spiritually. It was a very enlightening book on a subject matter I have no experience with. The research was thorough... A bit technical in nature, but mostly a fascinating and insightful look at the effect that prison has on women whose men are in prison. Contains many engaging snippets which were gleaned from extensive interviews and thorough fieldwork.
