Walsh, AM orcid.org/0000-0003-1501-8804 (2016) Staging women in prisons: Clean Break Theatre Company’s dramaturgy of the cage. Crime, Media, Culture, 12 (3). pp. 309-326. ISSN 1741-6590
Abstract
The article explores the limitations of the dramaturgies of the cell through a close reading of several key play texts commissioned by the UK’s leading arts in criminal justice organisation working with women, Clean Break. The apparently humanist positioning of women in prison as just like everyone else erases the specificity of women’s backstories. Conversely, by adhering to the constructions of female prisoners as holding binary positions of either ‘monsters’ or ‘victims’ of the system, plays can re-inscribe morally unitary approaches to women’s deviance and resistance. Many plays about women in prison hold a claim for resisting stereotypes and are in opposition to the injustice of criminal justice processes, and yet, in the realist mode, the monster/ victim position seems to be an inescapable binary.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © The Author(s) 2015 . This is an author produced version of a paper published in Crime, Media, Culture: An International Journal. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | performance; resistance; Clean Break; dramaturgy; feminist criminology |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Performance and Cultural Industries (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 18 Aug 2017 15:13 |
Last Modified: | 24 Nov 2020 12:44 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/1741659015613675 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:119916 |