title: Reading Is My Window: Books and the Art of Reading in Womens Prisons
author:  Megan Sweeney 
description: "Difficult, inspiring, and probably the most important book on reading you will have read in a long time. Meticulously and compassionately researched . . . A stunning achievement."<i></i> --Avery Gordon, Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination<br /><br />"What Sweeney does best is to show how various kinds of stories enable women to tell more powerful stories about themselves. . . . This book makes a significant contribution." --Rena Fraden, Imagining Medea: Rhodessa Jones and Theater for Incarcerated Women<br /><br />"[O]f interest to . . . those in sociology, criminal justice, education, women's studies, African American studies, and literature," as well as "adult literacy, prisoner advocacy, or social justice issues.<strong>"-- Library Journal</strong><br /><br /><i>Reading is my Window </i>is a most original scholarly work . . . [Sweeney's] research method and analysis are meticulous; the book is enlivened by the frank and often surprising remarks of her subjects. --Bell Gale Chevigny, Women's Review of Books<br /><br />These interviews and discussions offer a fascinating insight into how the women manage to regain a kind of humanity through reading while residing in an institution determined to dehumanize them. --Alyssa Vincent, Feminist Review
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  The Prisoner in the Tower
  
  
  
  
  
  Dawn Harris
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Dawn Harris was born in Gosport, Hampshire, but has lived most of her life in
  North Yorkshire. She was first published in the Yorkshire Post, writing
  humorous poems and articles, and went on to win two short story competitions
  in UK magazines. Since then her stories have appeared in many publications in
  the UK and abroad, including Woman’s Weekly, Woman’s Realm, Best and People’s
  Friend.
  
  
  
  
  
  She is married with three grown-up children and two grandchildren. Her
  daughter, Anne, is also an author, writing children’s books.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover copyright © 2019 Anne & Paul Cameron.
  
  
  
  
  
  With many thanks to my daughter and son-in-law for creating such wonderful
  covers for all my books.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Text Copyright © 2019 Dawn Harris
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN: 9781710565980
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  