Prison Cultures
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Prison Cultures

Performance, Resistance, Desire

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eBook - PDF

Prison Cultures

Performance, Resistance, Desire

About this book

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 United Kingdom 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 problematizes 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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Information

Publisher
Intellect Books
Year
2019
Print ISBN
9781789381054
eBook ISBN
9781789381078
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Drama
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. List of Figures
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter One: Prison Cultures: Habitus and ‘Tragic Containment’
  10. Chapter Two: Genealogies of Prison as Performance: Towards a Theory of Simulating the Cage
  11. Chapter Three: Trauma, Strategies and Tactics: Problems of Performance in Prison
  12. Chapter Four: Race, Space and Violence
  13. Chapter Five: Prison Lesbians: Screening Intimacy and Desire
  14. Chapter Six: Performance through Prison: Institutional Ghosts and Traces of the Traumatic
  15. Conclusion: Paradoxes of Prison Cultures
  16. Bibliography
  17. Filmography
  18. Live Performances
  19. Index
  20. Back Cover