Reading is my window
Subtitle: books and the art of reading in women's prisons
By: by Megan Sweeney.
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chapel Hill
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807833520; 9780807871003
Subjects: Women prisoners -- United States -- Books and reading; Books and reading; African American women -- Books and reading; African American women -- Study and teaching (Higher)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tell me what you read; I will tell you what you are : reading and education in U.S. penal history; title: The underground book railroad : material dimensions of reading; title: Between a politics of pain and a politics of pain's disavowal; title: Fear of books : reading urban fiction; title: To set the captives free : self-help reading practices; title: Encounters : the meeting ground of books; title: Conclusion. This really isn't a rehabilitation place : policy considerations.