Girls Behind Bars: Reclaiming Education in Transformative Spaces (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781628921779)

While scholarship on the education of youth behind bars has largely focused on boys, more than one in three youth arrests in the United States is female. Girls Behind Bars sets out to address this imbalance.

First, the book offers autobiographies, life-stories, and counter-stories in order to counter simplistic generalizations and empirical prescriptions. Next, the study provides the educational community with critical perspectives that examine empiricist epistemologies and positivist methodologies that label certain groups of girls as delinquent and mark them for punitive and corrective treatment behind bars. Third, the book opens up the discussion on girls' gender, desire, and sexuality by offering a language for these issues absent in educational discourse. Finally, the book supports calls for educators and practitioners in their desire to envision and create transformative spaces that enable young girls behind bars to reclaim their education.

Including a foreword by William Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn, this important and powerful book gives voice to a neglected, silenced, and misrepresented population - young girls behind bars.

Author: Suniti Sharma
ISBN-10: 1628921773
ISBN-13: 9781628921779
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 05/08/2014
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d