Description:Drawing on extensive interviews with ninety-four women prisoners, Megan Sweeney examines how incarcerated women use available reading materials to come to terms with their pasts, negotiate their present experiences, and reach toward different futures. Reading is My Window won the 2011 Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work in Women's Studies, from the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. The book also won a 2010 PASS Award from the National Council on Crime and Delinquency.