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1 online resource |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"Joey spit on me" : how gender inequality and sexual violence make women sick -- "Nowhere to go" : poverty, homelessness, and the limits of personal responsibility -- "The Little Rock of the north" : race, gender, class, and the consequences of mass incarceration -- Suffer the women : pain and perfection in a medicalized world -- "It's all in my head" : suffering, PTSD, and the triumph of the therapeutic -- Higher powers : the unholy alliance of religion, self-help ideology, and the State -- "Suffer the children" : fostering the caste of the ill and afflicted -- Gender, drugs, and jail : "a system designed for us to fail" -- Conclusion : the real questions and a blueprint for moving forward. |
| Summary |
"Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can't Catch a Break documents the day-to-day lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and a broad cultural consensus that views suffering as a consequence of personal flaws and bad choices. Combining hard-hitting policy analysis with an intimate account of how marginalized women navigate an unforgiving world, Susan Sered and Maureen Norton-Hawk shine new light on the deep and complex connections between suffering and social inequality"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Abused women -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions.
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Abused women. |
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Massachusetts -- Boston. |
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Social conditions. |
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Female offenders -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions.
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Female offenders. |
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Women drug addicts -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- Social conditions.
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Women drug addicts. |
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Responsibility -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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Responsibility -- Social aspects. |
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Responsibility. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Norton-Hawk, Maureen, author.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sered, Susan Starr, author. Can't catch a break 9780520282780 (DLC) 2014011744 (OCoLC)876370844 |
| ISBN |
9780520958708 (electronic book) |
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0520958705 (electronic book) |
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1306945003 (electronic book) |
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9781306945004 (electronic book) |
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9780520282780 |
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0520282787 |
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9780520282797 |
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0520282795 |
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