Incarceration by Any Other Name: The Unholy Alliance of Religion, Therapeutic Culture, and the State
Susan Sered is a professor of sociology at Suffolk University in Boston and a senior researcher at Suffolk University's Center for Women’s Health and Human Rights. Previously she also directed a research program in Religion, Health, and Healing at Harvard University's Center for the Study of World Religions.
A prolific writer, her books include Can’t Catch a Break: Gender, Jail, Drugs, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility, Uninsured in America: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity, and Priestess, Mother, Sacred Sister: Religions Dominated by Women, among others.
Drawing on a decade of fieldwork with criminalized women in Massachusetts, Sered argues that medicalization, criminalization, and the omnipresent 12-step movement create a double-edged sword that blames individuals for societal failings.
Professor Sered's Athenaeum talk is co-sponsored by the Berger Institute for Work, Family, and Children.
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