Walsh, A orcid.org/0000-0003-1501-8804 (2019) Prison Cultures: Performance, Resistance, Desire. Intellect ISBN 9781789381054
Abstract
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. 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 understanding of women’s incarceration. It problematises the prevalence, of purely literary analysis or case studies that proffer particular models of arts practice as transformative of offending behaviour.
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Item Type: | Book |
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Keywords: | Anthropology, Cultural studies, Gender studies: women, Prisons, Social & cultural anthropology |
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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 Sep 2019 08:32 |
Last Modified: | 18 Sep 2019 08:32 |
Published Version: | https://www.intellectbooks.com/prison-cultures |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Intellect |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:142551 |