TY - BOOK ID - 134730094 TI - Reading is my window PY - 2010 SN - 1469604361 080789835X 9780807898352 9781469604367 9780807833520 9780807871003 0807833525 0807871001 9798893134179 PB - Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press DB - UniCat KW - Women prisoners KW - Books and reading. KW - African American women KW - Books and reading KW - Study and teaching (Higher) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134730094 AB - Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. Foregrounding the voices of African American women, Sweeney analyzes how prisoners read three popular genres: narratives of victimization, urban crime fiction, and self-help books. She outlines the history of reading and education in U.S. prisons, highlighting how the increasing dehumanization of prisoners has resulted in diminished priso ER -