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- catalog abstract ""Kathleen O'Shea didn't set out looking for connections with women on death row. She wanted information about them--who they are, the ways in which they live from day to day. "I was writing a sociological reference book," she tells us, "a fairly safe, fairly emotionless endeavor." As she got to know the incarcerated women she was studying, however, what became clear to her were not their differences, but how, in so many ways, she and the women in prison were the same. Arguably, Kathleen O'Shea is the only person to have contacted every woman currently in U.S. prisons with a death sentence. Women On The Row: Revelations From Both Sides of the Bars is her honest, startling, sometimes raw, sometimes radiant exploration of the places where doing heavy time and being free overlap. Neither a treatise against the death penalty, nor an apologia for female innocence, Women On The Row focuses on the interconnectedness of women's lives. The author creates memorable composite portaits of ten death row women based on her conversations with them, on information that has been given to her, and juxtaposes vignettes from her own life "outside" for a call and response across realities. She reflects on her encounters with condemned women and how their stories illuminate her own. In the process she gives us creative nonfiction with the power to challenge deeply held assumptions."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11643228.
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Kathleen O'Shea didn't set out looking for connections with women on death row. She wanted information about them--who they are, the ways in which they live from day to day. "I was writing a sociological reference book," she tells us, "a fairly safe, fairly emotionless endeavor." As she got to know the incarcerated women she was studying, however, what became clear to her were not their differences, but how, in so many ways, she and the women in prison were the same. Arguably, Kathleen O'Shea is the only person to have contacted every woman currently in U.S. prisons with a death sentence. Women On The Row: Revelations From Both Sides of the Bars is her honest, startling, sometimes raw, sometimes radiant exploration of the places where doing heavy time and being free overlap. Neither a treatise against the death penalty, nor an apologia for female innocence, Women On The Row focuses on the interconnectedness of women's lives. The author creates memorable composite portaits of ten death row women based on her conversations with them, on information that has been given to her, and juxtaposes vignettes from her own life "outside" for a call and response across realities. She reflects on her encounters with condemned women and how their stories illuminate her own. In the process she gives us creative nonfiction with the power to challenge deeply held assumptions."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Ten Women -- Lauds -- Vespers -- Matins.".
- catalog extent "156 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Women on the row.".
- catalog identifier "1563411245 (pbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "1563411253 (cloth)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Women on the row.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Ithaca, N.Y. : Firebrand Books,".
- catalog relation "Women on the row.".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "364.3/74/092273 B 21".
- catalog subject "Death row inmates United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "HV9466 .O743 2000".
- catalog subject "Women prisoners United States Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Ten Women -- Lauds -- Vespers -- Matins.".
- catalog title "Women on the row : revelations from both sides of the bars / by Kathleen A. O'Shea.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".