03049nam 2200649Ia 450 991081550080332120240506082529.01-4696-0436-10-8078-9835-X(CKB)2520000000007814(EBL)515700(OCoLC)609694689(SSID)ssj0000365032(PQKBManifestationID)11925568(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000365032(PQKBWorkID)10402466(PQKB)10609645(StDuBDS)EDZ0000246753(MdBmJHUP)muse23536(Au-PeEL)EBL515700(CaPaEBR)ebr10367512(MiAaPQ)EBC515700(EXLCZ)99252000000000781420090811d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading is my window books and the art of reading in women's prisons /Megan Sweeney1st ed.Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press20101 online resource (351 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8078-7100-1 0-8078-3352-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. Foregrounding the voices of African American women, Sweeney analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books. She outlines the history of reading and education in U.S. prisons, highlighting how the increasing dehumanization of prisoners has resulted in diminished prisoWomen prisonersBooks and readingUnited StatesBooks and readingAfrican American womenBooks and readingAfrican American womenStudy and teaching (Higher)Women prisonersBooks and readingBooks and reading.African American womenBooks and reading.African American womenStudy and teaching (Higher)365/.66365.66Sweeney Megan1967-1083641MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910815500803321Reading is my window4083854UNINA