Inner Lives

Voices of African American Women In Prison

Author: Paula Johnson
Secondary Author: Jerome Alan Cohen
ISBN: 9780814742549

Have you wondered: Why women are more sympathetic than men toward O. J. Simpson? Why women were no more supportive of the Equal Rights Amendment than men? Why women are no more likely than men to support a female political candidate? Why women are no more likely than men to embrace feminism--a movement by, about, and for women? Why some women stay with men who abuse them? Loving to Survive addresses just these issues and poses a surprising answer. Likening women's situation to that of hostages, Dee L. R. Graham and her co- authors argue that women bond with men and adopt men's perspective in an effort to escape the threat of men's violence against them. Dee Graham's announcement, in 1991, of her research on male-female bonding was immediately followed by a national firestorm of media interest. Her startling and provocative conclusion was covered in dozens of national newspapers and heatedly debated. In Loving to Survive, Graham provides us with a complete account of her remarkable insi

Publisher: NYU Press
Publish Date: 2003-04-01

Subjects: Law / Criminal Law / General, Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, Social Science / Criminology, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Penology

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Prison)