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Arresting hope : women taking action in prison health inside out

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    Inanna Publications and Education Inc., 2014

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  • Contributor: Fels, Lynn; Leggo, Carleton Derek; Martin, Ruth Elwood; Korchinski, Mo
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    2014
    Summary:

    ARRESTING HOPE reminds us that prisons are not only places of punishment, marginalization, and trauma, but that they can also be places of hope, blessing even, where people with difficult lived experiences can begin to compose stories full of healing, anticipation, communication, education, connection, and community. The book tells a story about women in a provincial prison in Canada, about how creative leadership fostered opportunities for transformation and hope, and about how engaging in research and writing contributed to healing. The book includes poetry, stories, letters, interviews, fragments of conversations, reflections, memories, quotations, journal entries, creative nonfiction, and scholarly research. Out of multiple and diverse possibilities involving many people, ARRESTING HOPE is focused on five women--a prison doctor, a prison warden, a prison recreation therapist, a prison educator, and a prison inmate--and their stories of grief, desire, and hope.

    Contents:
    • Arresting Hope
    • An Invitation to Readers
    • Before Prison
    • Arrival
    • Daily Life
    • Recreation Therapy
    • Babies in Prison
    • Participatory Health Research
    • Community
    • Indigenous Learning
    • Stories of Transformation.
    Subject(s): Hope | Leadership | Women prisoners
    Original Publisher: Toronto, Canada, Inanna Publications and Education Inc.
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781771331586, 1771331585