Dress behind bars :

Ash, Juliet, 1949-

Dress behind bars : prison clothing as criminality / Juliet Ash. - London : I. B. Tauris, 2010. - 256 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

This work, illustrated and based on original research, is a history and investigation of prison dress. Ash reveals how regimes use clothing as a punishment, but also how the inmates use the clothing to subvert these punishment cultures.

Specialized.

9781850438946 (pbk.) : £14.95 1850438943 (pbk.) : £14.95 9781850438939 (hbk.) : £39.50 1850438935 (hbk.) : £39.50


Prisoners--Clothing.
Prisoners--Clothing--Political aspects.
Prisoners--Clothing--Social aspects.