Anna Müller

If the Walls Could Speak

Inside a Women's Prison in Communist Poland

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

If the Walls Could Speak focuses on the lives of women in prison in postwar communist Poland and how they took on different roles and personalities to protect themselves and create a semblance of normality, despite abuses and prison confinement, and reveals how life in a Stalinist prison adds to our understanding of coercion and resistance under totalitarian regimes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 164mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780190499860
• ISBN-10: 0190499869
• Artikelnr.: 48320323

Autorenporträt

Anna Müller is assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
List of Women Prisoners
Introduction
Chapter 1: War and the Penitentiary System
Chapter 2: On the Threshold: Arrest and Interrogation
Chapter 3: Learning One's Cell, Learning Oneself
Chapter 4: Prison Relationships: On Love, Trust, and Hostilities in a Prison Cell
Chapter 5: Boredom and Emptiness, or the Flow of Life in Confinement
Conclusion
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index