Wall Tappings: An International Anthology of Women's Prison Writings, 200 AD to the Present

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Wall Tappings: An International Anthology of Women's Prison Writings, 200 AD to the Present

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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.

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978-1-55861-273-0

Publication Date

1-1-2003

Publisher

The Feminist Press at the City University of New York

City

New York, NY

Disciplines

Law and Gender | Women's Studies

Wall Tappings: An International Anthology of Women's Prison Writings, 200 AD to the Present

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