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Book Review: Book Review Book Reviews Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 26(2) 222-227 Book Review ª 2011 SAGE Publications Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav http://affilia.sagepub.com Victoria Law Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009. 288 pp. $20 (paper). ISBN: 978-1-60486-916-4 Reviewed by: Patricia O’Brien, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA DOI: 10.1177/0886109911405598 Resistance Behind Bars, by Victoria Law, presents a straightforward examination of the multiple harms that incarcerated women experience and the women’s dynamic resistance to everyday systemic indifference and control. Law takes the reader ‘‘inside’’ the booming prison industrial complex by methodically documenting the individual choices and collective organiz- ing that enable women to survive the daily indignities that they are subjected to. Guided by years of antiprison organizing (she helped organize the Books Through Bars project) and a palpable feminist practice, Law challenges both prison and patriarchy, each of which would erase women’s agency. The book discusses the barriers that incarcerated women face in maintaining their relation- ships with their children, obtaininganeducation, gainingmeaningfulworkand pay, andhaving access to basic health care. Law argues cogently about the linkages between the increasingly complex relations linking state-inflicted punishment, the overrepresentation of women of color, and corporate http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work SAGE

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Book Reviews Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 26(2) 222-227 Book Review ª 2011 SAGE Publications Reprints and permission: sagepub.com/journalsPermissions.nav http://affilia.sagepub.com Victoria Law Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women Oakland, CA: PM Press, 2009. 288 pp. $20 (paper). ISBN: 978-1-60486-916-4 Reviewed by: Patricia O’Brien, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA DOI: 10.1177/0886109911405598 Resistance Behind Bars, by Victoria Law, presents a straightforward examination of the multiple harms that incarcerated women experience and the women’s dynamic resistance to everyday systemic indifference and control. Law takes the reader ‘‘inside’’ the booming prison industrial complex by methodically documenting the individual choices and collective organiz- ing that enable women to survive the daily indignities that they are subjected to. Guided by years of antiprison organizing (she helped organize the Books Through Bars project) and a palpable feminist practice, Law challenges both prison and patriarchy, each of which would erase women’s agency. The book discusses the barriers that incarcerated women face in maintaining their relation- ships with their children, obtaininganeducation, gainingmeaningfulworkand pay, andhaving access to basic health care. Law argues cogently about the linkages between the increasingly complex relations linking state-inflicted punishment, the overrepresentation of women of color, and corporate

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