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Women, Writing, and Prison

Activists, Scholars, and Writers Speak Out
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This collection includes a kaleidoscope of voices and perspectives from prisoners, former prisoners, scholars, and activists to examine the extraordinarily invisible and closed system of incarceration that characterizes the massive U.S. prison industry. The book explores in multiple ways, the role of writing in carceral settings, including material realities, ethics, and social justice. It is a book about the power of writing as well as its limits. It is a book that celebrates and critiques, challenges, and reveals. It is a book that, like the writing of incarcerated women, repays careful reading.

Author Biography:

Tobi Jacobi is an associate professor of English at Colorado State University where she teaches writing and literacy classes. Her research focuses on understanding the problems and possibilities of situating women’s prison writing workshops as alternative literacy training. She has taught lifewriting at a county prison in upstate New York and currently facilitates a women’s prison writing project in Fort Collins, CO. Ann Folwell Stanford is Vincent DePaul Professor of multidisciplinary and literary studies at the School for New Learning, DePaul University. A poet, she founded and directed the DePaul Project on Women, Writing, and Incarceration after having written poetry with women at Cook County Jail for over seven years. Her book, Bodies in A Broken World: Women Novelists of Color & The Politics of Medicine, was published in 2003. Her articles have appeared in African American Review, American Literature, Literature and Medicine, Feminist Studies, and other journals and books.
Release date Australia
November 13th, 2014
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Ann Folwell Stanford
  • Edited by Tobi Jacobi
  • Series edited by Kathleen Adams
Pages
304
Dimensions
162x235x27
ISBN-13
9781475808223
Product ID
22493173

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