Criminalizing Motherhood and Reproduction

In this book, motherhood and reproduction are identified as sites of legal, political, and ideological surveillance, regulation, and criminalization. The volume was originally published as a special issue of Women & Criminal Justice.

Autorentext

Michelle Hughes Miller is Professor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of South Florida, USA. As a feminist criminologist, she analyzes cultural and systemic responses to "bad" mothers and responses to violence against women. Along with multiple publications, she co-edited Bad Mothers: Representations, Regulations and Resistance (2017).

Inhalt

Introduction to Criminalizing Motherhood and Reproduction 1. Intensive Parenting Ideologies and Risks for Recidivism among Justice-Involved Mothers 2. Managing Motherhood: How Incarcerated Mothers Negotiate Maternal Role-Identities with Their Children's Caregivers 3. Creating and Undoing Legacies of Resilience: Black Women as Martyrs in the Black Community Under Oppressive Social Control 4. Discourses of Good Motherhood and the Policing of Young Parenthood 5. Criminalization of Women Accessing Abortion and Enforced Mobility within the European Union and the United Kingdom