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Profane Illuminations: The Gendered Problematics of Critical Carceral Visualities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

Ruby C. Tapia
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Since 1978, the population of women prisoners in the united states has increased by four hundred percent. The number of women now living and dying in cells exceeds 200,000 (United States Dept. of Justice). They are without access to proper health care, without the children that many of them will lose permanently: they are without. These are stark details, obscene in their materiality. They are facts, but they are not the picture. The picture is impossible. Indeed, the picture is the problem.

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Theories and Methodologies
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PMLA , Volume 123 , Issue 3 , May 2008 , pp. 684 - 688
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Copyright © 2008 by The Modern Language Association of America

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