Status
Checked out
Publication
Northeastern (1986), 376 pages
Description
Breaking histories of silence and invisibility,Wall Tappings presents an international collection of women's writings, from prisons around the world and across centuries. "These are the marginal texts in a tradition of marginal texts," writes Judith A. Scheffler in introducing her groundbreaking anthology of writing by women prisoners. Unique in its geographic and historical ranges, this rich collection gives a voice to women whose stories have been long neglected. Speaking from settings as diverse as a Roman prison cell in 203 AD, the labor camps of Siberia in the 1930s, and a Philippines prison in the 1980s, these writers explore the ways in which actual incarceration rests in the shadow of imprisonment within larger society.
Awards
Susan Koppelman Award for Feminist Studies (Winner — 1987)
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
376 p.
ISBN
1555530427 / 9781555530426
Local notes
life histories
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