Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America

by Jeanne Flavin

Book Overview

The intense policing of women's reproductive capacity places women's health and human rights in great peril. Poor women are pressured to undergo sterilization. Women addicted to illicit drugs risk arrest for carrying their pregnancies to term. Courts, child welfare, and law enforcement agencies fail to recognize the efforts of battered and incarcerated women to care for their children. Pregnant inmates are subject to inhumane practices such as shackling...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814727549
• ISBN13: 9780814727546
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"