Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. List of Tables ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. “Joey Spit on Me”: How Gender Inequality and Sexual Violence Make Women Sick 21
8. 2. “Nowhere to Go”: Poverty, Homelessness, and the Limits of Personal Responsibility 39
9. 3. “Th e Little Rock of the North”: Race, Gender, Class, and the Consequences of Mass Incarceration 57
10. 4. Suffer the Women: Pain and Perfection in a Medicalized World 71
11. 5. “It’s All in My Head”: Suffering, PTSD, and the Triumph of the Therapeutic 90
12. 6. Higher Powers: Th e Unholy Alliance of Religion, Self-Help Ideology, and the State 107
13. 7. “Suffer the Children”: Fostering the Caste of the Ill and Afflicted 126
14. 8. Gender, Drugs, and Jail: “A System Designed for Us to Fail” 141
15. Conclusion: The Real Questions and a Blueprint for Moving Forward 157
16. Appendix: Methodology and Project Participant Overview 167
17. Notes 173
18. References 181
19. Index 203