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Women and Prisons

Harlow, Barbara. Barred: Women, Writing, and Political Detention. Wesleyan University Press, 1992.

A survey, with extensive excerpts, of writings by and about women political prisoners in Northern Ireland, Israel, El Salvador, Egypt, South Africa, and the United States.

August 20, 2003December 14, 2012

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