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Books as Bombs: Incendiary Reading Practices in Women's Prisons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Megan Sweeney
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Reading receives considerable cultural and institutional support in the contemporary united states, from face-to-face, televised, and online book clubs to community-wide reading initiatives such as Michigan Reads!; One Book, One Philadelphia; and On the Same Page Cincinnati. In United States prisons, however, opportunities for reading and education have steadily declined since the prisoners' rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s gave way to the retributive-justice framework of the 1980s and beyond.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 3 , May 2008 , pp. 666 - 673
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Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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