Entertainment and profit constitute the driving force behind popular representations of women in correctional facilities. But the creative influence of film and television also generates legal meaning. The women-in-prison (WIP) genre...
Women prisoners in motion pictures
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Auteur:Bouclin, SuzanneSommaire: - Auteur:Bouclin, SuzanneSommaire:
Women, Film, and Law convincingly argues that popular fictional depictions of women’s imprisonment can illuminate the multiple forms of marginalization, social exclusion, and oppression experienced by criminalized women. While...
