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*Apologies for cross-posting* [image: Prison Cultures_cover.jpg] <https://www.intellectbooks.com/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 -- Katy Dalli | Marketing Executive A: Intellect, The Mill, Parnall Rd, Fishponds, Bristol BS16 3JG, UK E: [log in to unmask] W: www.intellectbooks.com T: +44 (0) 117 9589910 <+44%20117%20958%209910> <https://www.intellectbooks.com/> -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------