Reading Is My Window : Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons /

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Sweeney examines how incarcerated women read three popular genres of books-- narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books--to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. She outlines the history of reading and educ...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Sweeney, Megan, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Lektüre
Bildungsinteresse
Weibliche Gefangene
Books and reading.
African American women > Study and teaching (Higher)
African American women > Books and reading.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Noires americaines > Livres et lecture.
Livres et lecture.
Prisonnieres > Livres et lecture > États-Unis.
Women prisoners > Books and reading > United States.
USA.
United States.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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