ABSTRACT
The Netflix series Orange is the New Black has drawn widespread attention to many of the dysfunctions of prisons and the impact prisons have on those who live and work behind the prison gates. This anthology deepens this public awareness through scholarship on the television program and by exploring the real-world social, psychological, and legal issues female prisoners face. Each chapter references a particular connection to the Netflix series as its starting point of analysis.
The book brings together scholars to consider both media representations as well as the social justice issues for female inmates alluded to in the Netflix series Orange is the New Black. The chapters address myriad issues including cultural representations of race, class, gender, and sexuality; social justice issues for transgender inmates; racial dynamics within female prisons; gender and female prison structures/policies; treatment of women in prison; re-incarcerated and previously incarcerated women; self and identity; gender, race, and sentencing; and reproduction and parenting for female inmates.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|4 pages
Identity Construction and Prison
chapter 1|10 pages
Who Are You Really?
part 2|6 pages
Racial Inequality and Prisons
chapter 4|12 pages
An Overlooked Link
part 3|4 pages
Pregnancy and Parenting for Female Inmates
chapter 8|14 pages
Pregnancy and Postpartum Life Behind Bars
part 4|5 pages
Prisons, Hegemony, and Patriarchy
chapter 10|11 pages
“I’m in here because of bad choices”
chapter 11|12 pages
Prison Privatization through the Lens of Orange is the New Black
part 5|4 pages
Prisoners and Policies
part 6|4 pages
Prisons and Culture