TY - BOOK ID - 77876586 TI - Doing time together : love and family in the shadow of the prison PY - 2008 SN - 1282069721 9786612069727 0226114686 9780226114682 9780226114620 0226114627 9780226114637 0226114635 PB - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, DB - UniCat KW - Prisoners KW - Prisoners' spouses KW - Conjugal visits KW - Prison visits KW - Prisoners' wives KW - Spouses KW - Convicts KW - Correctional institutions KW - Imprisoned persons KW - Incarcerated persons KW - Prison inmates KW - Inmates of institutions KW - Persons KW - Family relationships KW - Inmates KW - California State Prison at San Quentin. KW - California. KW - San Quentin State Prison KW - San Quentin Prison KW - 343.8-058.6 KW - 343.8-058.6 Gevangene. Gedetineerde KW - Gevangene. Gedetineerde KW - prison, prisoners, jail, love, family, familial relationships, romantic relationship, sociology, sociologist, united states of america, usa, incarceration, incarcerated, women, gender, san quentin state, penitentiary, inmates, intimacy, justice, social welfare, public institutions, marginalization, marginalized communities, california, domestic, cultural studies, culture, marriage. KW - Prisonniers KW - Visites aux prisonniers KW - Famille KW - Californie (États-Unis) KW - Californie (États-Unis) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77876586 AB - 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 penitentiary. Tangling with the prison's intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into "quasi-inmates," eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, they express great ambivalence about the prison and the control it exerts over their daily lives. An illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America's massive prison system, Comfort's book will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture. ER -