{"product_id":"this-is-our-freedom-motherhood-in-the-shadow-of-the-american-prison-system-hardcover","title":"This Is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison System - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGeniece Crawford Mondé\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the overwhelming majority of women leaving correctional institutions in the United States, there is one aspect of their identity that informs their needs, opportunities, hopes, and dreams: their roles as mothers. \u003ci\u003eThis Is Our Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e provides an intimate and moving portrait of women's journeys prior to and after incarceration. In interviews with seventy formerly incarcerated mothers, Geniece Crawford Mondé captures how women reframe their marginalized identity and place themselves at the center of their own stories. With incisive analysis, Mondé reveals the complex ways that motherhood shapes post-incarceration life, while highlighting how the lasting legacy of mass incarceration continues to impact society's most vulnerable members.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA deeply insightful, thoughtful, and rigorous look into the lives of incarcerated mothers. Geniece Mondé finds that incarceration for mothers, especially black mothers and women of color, is a lifelong process and not one that ends once they leave the walls of their respective detention centers. This is a must-read text for anyone interested in the experiences of incarcerated women or women placed at risk. It uncovers the gendered, racialized, and socioeconomic challenges these women face and how motherhood complicates these challenges further. These are heart-wrenching stories, as well as tales of hope and determination. They are ones we all need to hear.--Jerry Flores, author of \u003ci\u003eCaught Up: Girls, Surveillance, and Wraparound Incarceration\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Mondé's nuanced and compelling study of mothers offers a much-needed expansion of life-course theory, one that considers the fluidity of motherhood and its impact on how women navigate the pathways available to them after they leave penal facilities.\"--Anna Curtis, author of \u003ci\u003eDangerous Masculinity: Fatherhood, Race, and Security inside America's Prisons \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"This Is Our Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is a compelling, compassionate account of the complexities of motherhood for women who have been incarcerated and of their negotiation of 'duality at the margins, ' balancing agency and acquiescence. Mondé details the women's lives and perspectives in their own words and in their messy and complicated totality.\"--Andrea Leverentz, author of \u003ci\u003eIntersecting Lives: How Place Shapes Reentry \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeniece Crawford Mondé\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Race and Ethnic Studies program at Wingate University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.71 x 9.06 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47462353174706,"sku":"9780520380714","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/c533cce428d6cc7f28dccc2c6140cb29_e5b49bad-21ed-4855-88dc-02ca29f90021.webp?v=1778967779","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/this-is-our-freedom-motherhood-in-the-shadow-of-the-american-prison-system-hardcover","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}