Reading is my window : books and the art of reading in women's prisons /
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...
| Основен автор: | Sweeney, Megan, 1967- |
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| Формат: | Електронна книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
℗♭2010.
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| Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=312425 |
| Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Reading is my window. |
Съдържание:
- 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.