Women at the Wall: A Study of Prisoners' Wives Doing Time on the Outside

by Laura T. Fishman

Book Overview

Women at the Wall is the first ethnographic study of how the arrest, trial, imprisonment, and release of male criminals affects their families, particularly their wives. It relies on first-person accounts by prisoners' wives, providing details about the changing texture of their marital relationships and the accompanying stigmatization.

From this book we learn about the effects of enforced spousal separation, and the control husbands maintain...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 079140059X
• ISBN13: 9780791400593
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 9.1"