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Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible After Incarceration

Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible After Incarceration

Garcia-Hallett, Janet

Hardcover

CriminologyGeneral SociologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0520315049
ISBN13: 9780520315044
Publisher: Univ Of California Pr
Published: Nov 8 2022
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Drawing on interviews conducted throughout New York City, Black feminist criminologist Janet Garcia-Hallett shares the traditionally silenced voices of formerly incarcerated mothers of color and exposes the difficult realities they face when reentering the community and navigating motherhood. Patriarchy, misogyny, and systemic racism marginalize and criminalize these mothers, pushing them into the grasp of penal control and forcing them to live in a state of disempowerment and hypersurveillance after imprisonment.

Armed with critical insight, Invisible Mothers demonstrates the paradox of visibility: social institutions treat mothers of color as invisible by restricting them from equal opportunities, and simultaneously as hypervisible by penalizing them for the ways they survive their marginalization. This thoughtful book reveals and contests their marginalization and highlights how mothers of color perform motherwork on their own terms.

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