‘We asked for life!’: women’s prison zines in 1970s America

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‘We asked for life!’: women’s prison zines in 1970s America

This dissertation discusses the previously unexamined and little-acknowledged genre of women’s prison zines in America. Beginning in the 1930s, these works of art and literature gave insight into the invisibilised world of women’s prisons and challenged preconceived ideas and stereotypes about femal...

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Main Author:	Wright, Olivia
Format:	Thesis (University of Nottingham only)
Language:	English
Published:	2017
Subjects:	Women's Prison zines in America 1970s
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/39676/

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