New Prairie Press - Adult Education Research Conference: Imprisoned bodies - free minds: Incarcerated women and liberatory learning.
 

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Irene C. Baird

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Using women's literature as a medium for self-exploration for self-awareness, incarcerated women learn to free their minds from their limiting situation. Examining the model through prison, Freirian, feminist methodologies affirms its significance/effectiveness as the essential first step for saying things differently, for liberation from oppression.

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Imprisoned bodies - free minds: Incarcerated women and liberatory learning.

Using women's literature as a medium for self-exploration for self-awareness, incarcerated women learn to free their minds from their limiting situation. Examining the model through prison, Freirian, feminist methodologies affirms its significance/effectiveness as the essential first step for saying things differently, for liberation from oppression.