Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

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name = Prisons We Choose to Live Inside


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author = Doris Lessing
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country = Canada
language = English
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genre = Non-fiction
publisher = CBC Enterprises
release_date = 1986
media_type = Print Paperback
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isbn = ISBN-10: 0060390778 ISBN-13: 978-0060390778

"Prisons We Choose to Live Inside" is a collection of five essays which were previously delivered as the 1985 Massey Lectures.

The Essays

The five collected essays are generally meant to be read in order though they can be read independently. The essays appear in the collection in the order that they were delivered as lectures. The titles of the essays are:

* When In the Future They Look Back On Us
* You Are Damned, We Are Saved
* Switching Off to See "Dallas"
* Group Minds
* Laboratories of Social Change

Reviews and Criticism

* [http://downes-review.blogspot.com/2006/07/prisons-we-choose-to-live-inside.html Review by Stephen Downes] (accessed 2008-10-07).


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