- Title Pages
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- Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
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Part One Defining the Problem -
Part Two Being a Mother from Inside -
Part Three Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside -
Part Four Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside -
Part Five Struggling for Health Care -
Part Six Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced -
Part Seven Struggling for Rights -
Part Eight Being Out -
73 A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After -
74 Life on the Outside—of What? -
75 California and the Welfare and Food Stamps Ban -
76 Employment Resolution: Human Rights Commission of the City and County of San Francisco -
77 Only with Time -
78 Child of a Convicted Felon -
79 Mothering after Imprisonment -
80 Being about It: Reflections on Advocacy after Incarceration -
81 The First Time Is a Mistake… -
82 What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside -
83 Alternatives: ATI in New York City -
84 Violent Interruptions -
85 Prison Abolition in Practice: The LEAD Project, the Politics of Healing, and a New Way of Life -
86 Booking It beyond the Big House -
87 Being Out of Prison - Contributors
- Index
What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside
What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside
- Chapter:
- (p.400) 82 What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside
- Source:
- Interrupted Life
- Author(s):
Freda Swinney
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
The author reflects on what life has been like for her since being released from prison where she stayed for eight and a half years. She has only been home ten months at the time of writing. She feels that there is so much for her to learn about life all over again. She has to learn how use modern technology and how to cope with relationships. She is amazed by the Internet and cell phones. She got romantically involved with a young man, who turned out to be leading a double life. The author did not realize how time-consuming a relationship could be, and also did not know that her loved ones, such as her son and her mother, would be jealous of her relationship with the young man. She was being pulled in many directions. Now she is taking the time she needs to get to know herself.
Keywords: prison, technology, cell phones, Internet, relationships, son, mother
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
-
Part One Defining the Problem -
Part Two Being a Mother from Inside -
Part Three Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside -
Part Four Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside -
Part Five Struggling for Health Care -
Part Six Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced -
Part Seven Struggling for Rights -
Part Eight Being Out -
73 A Former Battered Woman Celebrating Life After -
74 Life on the Outside—of What? -
75 California and the Welfare and Food Stamps Ban -
76 Employment Resolution: Human Rights Commission of the City and County of San Francisco -
77 Only with Time -
78 Child of a Convicted Felon -
79 Mothering after Imprisonment -
80 Being about It: Reflections on Advocacy after Incarceration -
81 The First Time Is a Mistake… -
82 What Life Has Been Like for Me Since Being on the Outside -
83 Alternatives: ATI in New York City -
84 Violent Interruptions -
85 Prison Abolition in Practice: The LEAD Project, the Politics of Healing, and a New Way of Life -
86 Booking It beyond the Big House -
87 Being Out of Prison - Contributors
- Index