{"product_id":"doing-time-together-megan-comfort-9780226114637","title":"Doing Time Together: Love and Family in the Shadow of the Prison","description":"By quadrupling the number of people behind bars in two decades, the United States has become the world leader in incarceration. Much has been written on the men who make up the vast majority of the nation's two million inmates. But what of the women they leave behind? \u003ci\u003eDoing Time Together\u003c\/i\u003e vividly details the ways that prisons shape and infiltrate the lives of women with husbands, fianc駸, and boyfriends on the inside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMegan Comfort spent years getting to know women visiting men at San Quentin State Prison, observing how their romantic relationships drew them into contact with the penitentiary. Tangling with the prison's intrusive scrutiny and rigid rules turns these women into \"quasi-inmates,\" eroding the boundary between home and prison and altering their sense of intimacy, love, and justice. Yet Comfort also finds that with social welfare weakened, prisons are the most powerful public institutions available to women struggling to overcome untreated social ills and sustain relationships with marginalized men. As a result, they express great ambivalence about the prison and the control it exerts over their daily lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn illuminating analysis of women caught in the shadow of America's massive prison system, Comfort's book will be essential for anyone concerned with the consequences of our punitive culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Megan Comfort\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0226114635\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226114637\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.87h x 6.09w x 0.61d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2007 pg. 140","brand":"Megan Comfort","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43994076053759,"sku":"9780226114637","price":33.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5d50d9bf-9380-4048-aecb-56e8d976f28a.jpg?v=1683327991","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/doing-time-together-megan-comfort-9780226114637","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}