Can'T Catch A Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, And The Limits Of Personal Responsibility

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.

• | Author: Susan Starr Sered|Maureen Norton-Hawk
• | Publisher: University Of California Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 12, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0520282795
• | ISBN-13: 9780520282797