Incarcerated women :  a history of struggles, oppression, and resistance in American prisons / 
 History of struggles, oppression, and resistance in American prisons 
edited by Erica Rhodes Hayden and Theresa R. Jach. 
 - xvi, 186 pages ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-174) and index. 
<br/><br/> This collection examines the history of the experience of female inmates in American prisons from the early nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. The contributors analyze women's efforts to exert agency and control over their bodies and experiences, issues of race and class, and how women's experiences differed from those of male inmates.  -- Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1498542115 9781498542111 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2017931735 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>1800-1999 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women prisoners--United States--20th century.<br/>Women prisoners--United States--19th century.<br/>Women prisoners.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV9466  / .I53 2017 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>365/.973