Prison cultures : performance, resistance, desire / Aylwyn Walsh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walsh, Aylwyn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prison theater.

Prison theater--Great Britain.

Female offenders.

Female offenders--Great Britain.

Imprisonment.

Great Britain.

Imprisonment--Great Britain.

Physical Description:

viii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Intellect ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, The University of Chicago Press, 2019.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

ISBN:

1789381053

9781789381054

OCLC:

1119607917