'The devil's bargain': Censorship, identity and the promise of empowerment in a prison newspaper

Journalism

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 5-23

  Novek, Eleanor ^a  

^a MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Censorship; Empowerment; Ethnography; Inmate journalism; Prison newspaper; Women's prison writing

Indexed keywords

EID: 27944437063     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884905048950     Document Type: Article

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