Reading Is My Window Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons 1st Edition by Megan Sweeney ISBN 080789835X 9780807898352

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ISBN 10: 080789835X

ISBN 13: 9780807898352

Author:  Megan Sweeney 

Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons 1st Edition: Drawing on exReading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons 1st Editionive 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.

 

Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Women’s Prisons 1st Edition Table of contents:

• Introduction
• Chapters:
  • Tell me what you read; I will tell you what you are
  • The underground book railroad
  • Between a politics of pain and a politics of pain’s disavowal
  • Fear of books
  • To set the captives free
  • Encounters
• Interludes:
  • Denise: A portrait
  • Monique: A portrait
• Conclusion: This really isn’t a rehabilitation place

 

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