Imprisoned Women: Toward a Socio-Literary Feminist Analysis

Voices from the Borderlands

“…But valorizing this type of outsider status, Elissa Gelfand has argued, is the luxury of those who are not already marginalized. 47 Women prisoners who are classed or classify themselves as "political" do regularly characterize themselves as virtuous outsiders -Mme Roland, Rosa Luxemburg, and Luise Rinser, for example. 48 In most cases, however, the focus is on virtue rather than on heroism: 49 44 Gaby Krücken, "ich kann nicht ewig alles hochziehen," in Laßt mich leben, ed.…”