...Cook County Jail in Chicago detains between 1,100 and 1,200 women on any given day, most of whom are there for non-violent offenses. The author of this chapter talks about when she started offering writing workshops shortly after a small group of volunteers and a supportive superintendent...

...This chapter highlights the Solidarity/Solidaridad project—twenty 2-hour Spanish and workers' rights classes and four half-day workshops—which aimed to create a common language and points of connection through which poultry workers could construct coalitions with their coworkers as well...

...This chapter examines how the new emotional models are performed in a gender-blind narrative of identity that is enacted in a wide variety of social sites, such as support groups and therapeutic workshops. It discusses the ways in which the alliance between the therapeutic discourse and the self...