{"product_id":"invisible-mothers-unseen-yet-hypervisible-after-incarceration-paperback","title":"Invisible Mothers: Unseen Yet Hypervisible After Incarceration - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJanet Garcia-Hallett\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on interviews conducted throughout New York City, Black feminist criminologist Janet Garcia-Hallett shares the traditionally silenced voices of formerly incarcerated mothers of color and exposes the difficult realities they face when reentering the community and navigating motherhood. Patriarchy, misogyny, and systemic racism marginalize and criminalize these mothers, pushing them into the grasp of penal control and forcing them to live in a state of disempowerment and hypersurveillance after imprisonment. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Armed with critical insight, \u003ci\u003eInvisible Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates the paradox of visibility: social institutions treat mothers of color as invisible by restricting them from equal opportunities, and simultaneously as hypervisible by penalizing them for the ways they survive their marginalization. This thoughtful book reveals and contests their marginalization and highlights how mothers of color perform motherwork on their own terms.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is filled with the voices and understandings of marginalized mothers, and we come to see how their invisibility and hypervisibility delineate their lives and their experiences as mothers after incarceration.--Michelle Hughes Miller, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eBad Mothers: Regulations, Representations, and Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An extremely valuable window into a particularly marginalized group, one that is often left out of criminal justice-reform conversations. Few books examine criminalized women's experiences with such a wide-angle lens.\"--Allison McKim, author of \u003ci\u003eAddicted to Rehab: Race, Gender, and Drugs in the Era of Mass Incarceration\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"With rich, powerful narratives and analysis, \u003ci\u003eInvisible Mothers\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the mechanisms of oppression and hypersurveillance that produce unrelenting obstacles for formerly incarcerated African American, West Indian, and Latina mothers.\"--Hillary Potter, author of \u003ci\u003eIntersectionality and Criminology: Disrupting and Revolutionizing Studies of Crime\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJanet Garcia-Hallett\u003c\/b\u003e, an Afro-Latina mother and a product of Harlem, is Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51782458409248,"sku":"9780520315051","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/2841e9f2f90d3b8f4a6c27236bfff5d4.webp?v=1780571312","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/invisible-mothers-unseen-yet-hypervisible-after-incarceration-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}