“Holding the Dream”: Women’s Favorite Reading Matter in a Portuguese Prison
The reading practices of women, mediated by a prison library in Portugal, constituted an interesting case study. In Santa Cruz do Bispo prison, female prisoners were increasingly aged and excluded from social groups, less literate, and educated. Many were first-time library users and some were begin...
Main Author: | Paula Sequeiros |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Lodz University Press
2018-03-01
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Series: | Qualitative Sociology Review |
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Online Access: | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/qualit/article/view/2766 |
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