- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
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Part One Defining the Problem -
Part Two Being a Mother from Inside -
Part Three Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside -
Part Four Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside -
32 Lit by Each Other’s Light: Women’s Writing at Cook County Jail -
33 Tuesday SOUL -
34 “I lived that book!”: Reading behind Bars -
35 Changing Minds: A Participatory Action Research Project on College in Prison -
36 Imagining the Self and Other: Women Narrate Prison Life across Cultures -
37 My Art -
38 My Window -
39 They Talked -
40 I Never Knew -
41 Wise Women: Critical Citizenship in a Women’s Prison -
42 Women of Wisdom: An Alternative Community of Faith -
43 Chain of Command -
Part Five Struggling for Health Care -
Part Six Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced -
Part Seven Struggling for Rights -
Part Eight Being Out - Contributors
- Index
My Window
My Window
- Chapter:
- (p.206) 38 My Window
- Source:
- Interrupted Life
- Author(s):
Michele Molina
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
In her poem entitled “My Window,” Michele Molina talks about how she sees the light out of her window as she lives each day in prison, but only feels the darkness around her. She says it is time to open the window to her soul and let the light in.
Keywords: Michele Molina, poem, prison, window, darkness, light
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- [UNTITLED]
- Introduction. Certain Failures: Representing the Experiences of Incarcerated Women in the United States
-
Part One Defining the Problem -
Part Two Being a Mother from Inside -
Part Three Intimacy, Sexuality, and Gender Identity Inside -
Part Four Creating and Maintaining Intellectual, Spiritual, and Creative Life Inside -
32 Lit by Each Other’s Light: Women’s Writing at Cook County Jail -
33 Tuesday SOUL -
34 “I lived that book!”: Reading behind Bars -
35 Changing Minds: A Participatory Action Research Project on College in Prison -
36 Imagining the Self and Other: Women Narrate Prison Life across Cultures -
37 My Art -
38 My Window -
39 They Talked -
40 I Never Knew -
41 Wise Women: Critical Citizenship in a Women’s Prison -
42 Women of Wisdom: An Alternative Community of Faith -
43 Chain of Command -
Part Five Struggling for Health Care -
Part Six Serving Time, Sentenced and Unsentenced -
Part Seven Struggling for Rights -
Part Eight Being Out - Contributors
- Index