Людмила Альперн, Сон и явь женской тюрьмы, Санкт-Петербург: Алетейя, Серия Гендерные исследования [Liudmila Al’pern, Dream and reality in women’s prisons], 2004, 446 с.

The dream of any author – especially of a book with the word “dream” in the title – consists in having his or her text reviewed by somebody who at least understands the theoretical approach structuring the book’s content. How often writings based on qualitative methods are destroyed by reviewers who “deconstruct” them in perspective of quantitative methods and vice versa!The identification of the theoretical perspective adapted by the author of Dreams and the reality of prison for women does ...