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1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Prison Cultures: Habitus and 'Tragic Containment' -- Chapter Two: Genealogies of Prison as Performance: Towards a Theory of Simulating the Cage -- Chapter Three: Trauma, Strategies and Tactics: Problems of Performance in Prison -- Chapter Four: Race, Space and Violence -- Chapter Five: Prison Lesbians: Screening Intimacy and Desire -- Chapter Six: Performance through Prison: Institutional Ghosts and Traces of the Traumatic -- Conclusion: Paradoxes of Prison Cultures |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Prison theater.
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Prison theater. |
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Prison theater -- Great Britain.
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Great Britain. |
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Female offenders.
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Female offenders. |
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Female offenders -- Great Britain.
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Imprisonment.
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Imprisonment -- Great Britain.
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Imprisonment. |
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imprisonment. |
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Crime. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Walsh, Aylwyn. Prison cultures. Bristol : Intellect ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2019 1789381053 (OCoLC)1119607917 |
| ISBN |
9781789381061 (electronic book) |
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1789381061 (electronic book) |
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1789381053 |
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9781789381054 |
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9781789381078 PDF |
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178938107X PDF |
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