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I didn't already know occupational hazard but great ethnography and a really interesting read, This is not simply a litany of horrific events experienced by individual women over the course of their lives, The authors analyze each of these experiences to challenge prevailing stereotypes around addiction, sexual violence, crime and posttraumatic stress disorder, They also challenge the dominant idea that individual responsibility rather than structural conditions lead to economic inequality, lack of resources and gender violence.


Though it's on an academic press, it's not written in jargon or academese,
Read Harder Challenge: A nonfiction book about feminism or dealing with feminist themes,

I assigned this book for my Senior Capstone class in Sociology which was focused on prisons and policing in the U.
S. I originally chose it because I wanted to include something that focused specifically on women in the prison system, As it turned out, this book served not just as a way of examining the women's experiences, it also provided the defining ideas of the course.


One of the key questions of the book is: Have prisons become the way that we deal with suffering in the U.
S. Students came back to this question again and again as we read about and researched the prison system, The authors make clear and concrete connections between economic and health inequalities and the women's experiences with prisons and police, They argue that though the women seek to get out of this cycle, "they remain trapped in the caste of the ill and afflicted" p.
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By exploring the question of why women can't escape this "institutional circuit", the authors are able to highlight the structural nature of suffering as opposed to focusing on an individual's bad choices or bad luck.
This framing makes it a perfect book for better understanding C, Wright Mill's sociological imagination connecting personal troubles to public issues, Though I assigned this to seniors, I think it would also be an extremely useful and accessible introductory text for new sociologists.


Though the content of this book is heartbreaking, the authors' approach affords the women in

the study dignity and offers a compassionate, rather than judgemental, view.
Susan Sered, AB'
Coauthor

From the coauthor: "Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Cant Catch a Break documents the daytoday lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and a broad cultural consensus that views suffering as a consequence of personal flaws and bad choices.
Combining hardhitting policy analysis with an intimate account of how marginalized women navigate an unforgiving world, Susan Sered and Maureen NortonHawk shine new light on the deep and complex connections between suffering and social inequality.
" Based on five years of fieldwork in Boston, Can't Catch a Break documents the daytoday lives of forty women as they struggle to survive sexual abuse, violent communities, ineffective social and therapeutic programs, discriminatory local and federal policies, criminalization, incarceration, and a broad cultural consensus that views suffering as a consequence of personal flaws and bad choices.
Combining hardhitting policy analysis with an intimate account of how marginalized women navigate an unforgiving world, Susan Sered and Maureen NortonHawk shine new light on the deep and complex connections between suffering and social inequality.
" I had to read this book for a class, and I must say that I am incredibly grateful my professor made this a mandatory text.
By weaving important statistics on a variety of societal issues incarceration, sexual assault, etc, between powerful case studies, this novel has a lasting impact, I strongly recommend it for anyone who wants to better understand the structures and policies that affect our everyday lives and contribute to people's inability to escape from systems of oppression, poverty, and destitution.
Susan Starr Sered bornis Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University and Senior Researcher at Suffolk Universitys Center for Womens Health and Human Rights, having previously been the director of the Religion, Health and Healing Initiative at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, and a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Her interests include both research and advocacy / activism, Professor Sered is the author of seven books, nearly one hundred scholarly articles, and numerous op eds and shorter articles focusing on womens health, mass incarceration, and a variety of religious issues, including:from Wikipedia Susan Starr Sered bornis Professor of Sociology at Suffolk University and Senior Researcher at Suffolk University's Center for Women's Health and Human Rights, having previously been the director of the "Religion, Health and Healing Initiative" at the Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions, and a Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, Israel.
Her interests include both research and advocacy / activism, Professor Sered is the author of seven books, nearly one hundred scholarly articles, and numerous op eds and shorter articles focusing on women's health, mass incarceration, and a variety of religious issues, including:from Wikipedia sitelink.