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(Ebook) Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons by Megan Sweeney ISBN 9780807833520, 0807833525

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Authors:Megan Sweeney
Pages:352 pages.
Year:2010
Editon:New edition
Publisher:Univ of North Carolina Press
Language:english
File Size:19.71 MB
Format:pdf
ISBNS:9780807833520, 0807833525
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(Ebook) Reading is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women's Prisons by Megan Sweeney ISBN 9780807833520, 0807833525

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 prison libraries and restricted opportunities for reading. Although penal officials have sometimes endorsed reading as a means to control prisoners, Sweeney illuminates the resourceful ways in which prisoners educate and empower themselves through reading. Given the scarcity of counseling and education in prisons, women use books to make meaning from their experiences, to gain guidance and support, to experiment with new ways of being, and to maintain connections with the world.

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