Can't catch a break: gender, jail, drugs and the limits of personal responsibility

"Joey spit on me" : how gender inequality and sexual violence make women sick

"Nowhere to go" : poverty, homelessness, and the limits of personal responsibility

"The Little Rock of the north" : race, gender, class, and the consequences of mass incarceration

Suffer the women : pain and perfection in a medicalized world

"It's all in my head" : suffering, PTSD, and the triumph of the therapeutic

Higher powers : the unholy alliance of religion, self-help ideology, and the State

"Suffer the children" : fostering the caste of the ill and afflicted

Gender, drugs, and jail : "a system designed for us to fail"

Conclusion : the real questions and a blueprint for moving forward.