• JANE EVELYN ATWOOD - Trop de Peines

JANE EVELYN ATWOOD - Trop de Peines

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 Jane Evelyn Atwood
Trop de Peines

Published by Albin Michel, 2000
Book size 22 x 29 cm
Pages 194 pages
Hardcover
EAN13: 9782226112361
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"This is a documentary survey of the experience of women in prison by the award-winning photojournalist Jane Evelyn Atwood. Since 1980 the numbers of women in US prisons have increased tenfold. Similar statistics apply to the nine other countries around the world where Atwood has in penetrating the prison systems - photographing, interviewing women prisoners and their guards, gathering testimony. raises questions about the relative treatment of men and women in prison and about the links between women's crimes and male violence. But more than a campaigning photo story, the book assembles an extraordinary body of experience. 1981, comments: "as women in prison, we tell stories to each other - sitting in our cells, walking in the prison yard, in parenting groups - but we urgently need our stories to be heard beyond the walls and the razor wire. This book takes the reader into the lives of women in prison as they reflect on personal responsibility and social realities, guilt and reparation, change, loss and survival. It is in the power of prisoners' voices that the complex truth emerges."
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"For nine years, in nine countries, I have photographed women in prison. I am often asked how I could spend so much time on such a sad subject. At first, curiosity was my main motivation. Surprise, shock and amazement took over. Then anger carried me to the end. From the beginning, I was struck by the immense emotional deprivation of the prisoners. They were disabled, and in many ways. They had been crushed not only by ignorance, poverty and a broken family life, which is the common lot of almost all prisoners, but also by years - if not a lifetime - of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of men. Today, the policy in women's prisons is to humiliate rather than rehabilitate. In some societies, a man who has been in jail is considered a hero. For a woman, it is always a degradation. 89% of women in prison are for non-violent crimes. Is it really necessary to put them in prison? Look closely at these women. They had the courage to face their guilt, to want to change, to speak to us, with their words and their images. These are the women we have turned our backs on."
Jane Evelyn Atwood