Título: Conversions : women re-signing from prison
Autores: Foran, Frances.
Fecha: 1998
Publicador: McGill University - MCGILL
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Tipo: Electronic Thesis or Dissertation
Tema: Prisoners' writings, Canadian.
Women prisoners -- Ontario -- Kingston.
Reformatories for women -- Ontario -- Kingston.
Descripción: The research examines the development of women's prison writing through the journal of the Kingston Prison for Women, Tightwire. The journal enabled the prisoners to articulate their experience of prison for themselves as a specific subject-group, as women and as legal subjects. The research connects the prison writing to alterations in legal discourse which reflect the emergence of women as a specific group. The prison writings suggest that extra-legal discourse transforms legal discourse and practice. The appendix includes a selection of poems and comments from Tightwire .
Idioma: en