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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.
As an additional teaching tool, instructors can find updates about the women in Can't Catch a Break on Susan's blog at http://susan.sered.name/blog/category/cant-catch-a-break/.
As an additional teaching tool, instructors can find updates about the women in Can't Catch a Break on Susan's blog at http://susan.sered.name/blog/category/cant-catch-a-break/.
Price: $29.95
Pages: 230
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Publication Date:
12 September 2014
ISBN: 9780520958708
Format: eBook
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Joey Spit on Me": How Gender Inequality and Sexual Violence Make Women Sick
2. "Nowhere to Go": Poverty, Homelessness, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
3. "The Little Rock of the North": Race, Gender, Class, and the Consequences of Mass Incarceration
4. Suffer the Women: Pain and Perfection in a Medicalized World
5. "It’s All in My Head": Suffering, PTSD, and the Triumph of the Therapeutic
6. Higher Powers: The Unholy Alliance of Religion, Self-Help Ideology, and the State
7. "Suffer the Children": Fostering the Caste of the Ill and Afflicted
8. Gender, Drugs, and Jail: "A System Designed for Us to Fail"
Conclusion: The Real Questions and a Blueprint for Moving Forward
Appendix: Methodology and Project Participant Overview
Notes
References
Index
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. "Joey Spit on Me": How Gender Inequality and Sexual Violence Make Women Sick
2. "Nowhere to Go": Poverty, Homelessness, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility
3. "The Little Rock of the North": Race, Gender, Class, and the Consequences of Mass Incarceration
4. Suffer the Women: Pain and Perfection in a Medicalized World
5. "It’s All in My Head": Suffering, PTSD, and the Triumph of the Therapeutic
6. Higher Powers: The Unholy Alliance of Religion, Self-Help Ideology, and the State
7. "Suffer the Children": Fostering the Caste of the Ill and Afflicted
8. Gender, Drugs, and Jail: "A System Designed for Us to Fail"
Conclusion: The Real Questions and a Blueprint for Moving Forward
Appendix: Methodology and Project Participant Overview
Notes
References
Index