Recovering Identity

Name: Recovering Identity
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SKU: 9780520376991
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Criminalized Women's Fight for Dignity and Freedom

By Cesraéa Rumpf

Summary

Recovering Identity explores the complex identity work of formerly incarcerated women as they navigate recovery and faith-based narratives to rebuild themselves beyond labels of "criminal-addicts." Cesraéa Rumpf uses qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews to reveal how these women create spaces for growth and joy while critiquing narratives that individualise blame and obscure systemic issues like racism, sexism, and poverty.
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This book is suited for readers interested in criminal justice, gender studies, social reform, and those seeking a deeper understanding of the challenges faced by formerly incarcerated women.

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Recovering Identity examines a critical tension in criminalised women's identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as "criminal-addicts."

While these discourses made it possible for women to carve out spaces of personal protection, growth, and joy, they also promoted individualistic understandings of criminalisation and the violence and dehumanisation that followed.

Honouring criminalised women's stories of personal transformation, Rumpf nevertheless strongly critiques institutions' promotion of narratives that impose lifelong moral judgment while detracting attention from the structural forces of racism, sexism, and poverty that contribute to women's vulnerability to violence.

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Gender & Society describes Recovering Identity as "essential reading for anyone committed to easing the reintegration of criminalised women into society." The book is praised for its insightful critique of the moral judgments imposed on these women and its advocacy for structural change.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520376991

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 May 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 23 color illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 363g

Pages: 232

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Cesraéa Rumpf Education & Reference Non-Fiction

About the Author

Cesraéa Rumpf is Associate Director of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago.