Prison cultures: performance, resistance, desire

Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of "bad girls" and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt heg...

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Main Author: Walsh, Aylwyn (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK Chicago, USA Intellect 2019
In:Year: 2019
Online Access: Table of Contents
Availability in Tübingen:Present in Tübingen.
UB: KB 21 A 1014
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Keywords:
Prison theater
Prison theater > Great Britain
Female offenders
Female offenders > Great Britain
Imprisonment
Imprisonment > Great Britain
Crime
Great Britain
Großbritannien > Frauenstrafvollzug > Theater
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Summary:Prison Cultures offers the first systematic examination of women in prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist approach to reach beyond tropes of "bad girls" and simplistic inside vs. outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or disrupt hegemonic understandings of the world of prisons. Focusing primarily on the UK and using examples from pop cultures, the book identifies how and why prison functions as a fixed field and postulates new ways of viewing performances in and of prison that trouble the institution. A new contribution to the fields of feminist cultural criticism and prison studies, Aylwyn Walsh explores how the development of a theory of resistance and desire is central to the understanding of women's incarceration. It problematizes the prevalence of purely literary analysis or case studies that proffer particular models of arts practice as transformative of offending behavior
Physical Description:viii, 263 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:9781789381054