[Commlist] New Book - Prison Cultures

Intellect is delighted to announce that /Prison Cultures 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/prison-cultures>/ by Aylwyn Walsh is now 
available.

/Prison Cultures/ offers the first systematic examination of women in 
prison and performances in and of the institution. Using a feminist 
approach to reach beyond tropes of “bad girls” and simplistic inside vs. 
outside dynamics, it examines how cultural products can perpetuate or 
disrupt hegemonic understandings of the world of prisons. The book 
identifies how and why prison functions as a fixed field and postulates 
new ways of viewing performances in and of prison that trouble the 
institution, with a primary focus on the UK and examples from popular 
culture. A new contribution to the fields of feminist cultural criticism 
and prison studies, Aylwyn Walsh explores how the development of a 
theory of resistance and desire is central to the understanding of 
women’s incarceration. It problematises the prevalence, of purely 
literary analysis or case studies that proffer particular models of arts 
practice as transformative of offending behaviour.

*Table of Contents*

Introduction

Chapter One: Prison Cultures Habitus and ‘Tragic Containment’

Chapter Two: Genealogies of Prison as Performance: Towards a Theory of 
Simulating the Cage

Chapter Three: Trauma, Strategies and Tactics: Problems of Performance 
in Prison

Chapter Four: Race, Space and Violence

Chapter Five: Prison Lesbians: Screening Intimacy and Desire

Chapter Six: Performance through Prison: Institutional Ghosts and Traces 
of the Traumatic

Paradoxes of Prison Cultures

Please visit our website for more information: 
www.intellectbooks.com/prison-cultures 
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/prison-cultures>


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