Add to ORKGPrison 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. 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, with a primary focus on the UK and examples from popular culture. 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 under...
This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction ...
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, sociological research into women’s experiences of imp...
This dissertation deals with the question of whether women prisoners’ identities are completely subj...
Applied theatre in prisons has a rich history in the UK, although projects are often dogged by unrea...
The arts – spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres – constitute...
The relationship between power and resistance behind prison walls has long animated sociological dis...
Since the middle of the twentieth century, the women’s prison has held its place in one of the danke...
In this article, I examine the ways contemporary performances about women in prison have foregrounde...
Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accoun...
On occasion, turnabout is more than fair play. It is deliciously ironic, as Mary Bosworth’s analysis...
This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse ...
In this thesis I make the case that arts practice in prison has largely been appropriated by the dis...
The United States has emerged at the head of an international trend in penal expansion and punitive ...
This qualitative dissertation argues that women\u27s prison writing workshops are potential spaces f...
The experiences of women political prisoners in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1968 are s...
This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction ...
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, sociological research into women’s experiences of imp...
This dissertation deals with the question of whether women prisoners’ identities are completely subj...
Applied theatre in prisons has a rich history in the UK, although projects are often dogged by unrea...
The arts – spanning the visual, design, performing, media, musical, and literary genres – constitute...
The relationship between power and resistance behind prison walls has long animated sociological dis...
Since the middle of the twentieth century, the women’s prison has held its place in one of the danke...
In this article, I examine the ways contemporary performances about women in prison have foregrounde...
Little of what we know about prison comes from the mouths of prisoners, and very few academic accoun...
On occasion, turnabout is more than fair play. It is deliciously ironic, as Mary Bosworth’s analysis...
This edited collection utilises recent advances in theories on masculinities to explore and analyse ...
In this thesis I make the case that arts practice in prison has largely been appropriated by the dis...
The United States has emerged at the head of an international trend in penal expansion and punitive ...
This qualitative dissertation argues that women\u27s prison writing workshops are potential spaces f...
The experiences of women political prisoners in Communist Czechoslovakia between 1948 and 1968 are s...
This book is concerned with the media's role in everyday life, power relations and the construction ...
Throughout the 20th century and into the 21st, sociological research into women’s experiences of imp...
This dissertation deals with the question of whether women prisoners’ identities are completely subj...