Reading is my window: books and the art of reading in women's prisons

Tell me what you read; I will tell you what you are : reading and education in U.S. penal history -- The underground book railroad : material dimensions of reading -- Between a politics of pain and a politics of pain's disavowal -- Fear of books : reading urban fiction -- To set the captives fr...

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1. VerfasserIn: Sweeney, Megan (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Druck Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press 2010
In:Jahr: 2010
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Books and reading
USA > Weibliche Strafgefangene > Lektüre
USA > Weibliche Strafgefangene > Leserin
Women Prisoners > Books and reading > United States
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Zusammenfassung:Tell me what you read; I will tell you what you are : reading and education in U.S. penal history -- The underground book railroad : material dimensions of reading -- Between a politics of pain and a politics of pain's disavowal -- Fear of books : reading urban fiction -- To set the captives free : self-help reading practices -- Encounters : the meeting ground of books -- Conclusion. This really isn't a rehabilitation place : policy considerations
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XVI, 332 S.
ISBN:9780807833520
9780807871003