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Issue Details: First known date: 2004... 2004 Captive Hearts
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Nowra examines the phenomenon whereby women form strong emotional attachments, often leading to marriage, with men who are incarcerated in prison or in detention centres.

Notes

  • Disagreeing forcefully with Nowra's argument, Kerrie Lee, a visitor at the Villawood Detention Centre over a number of years, replies in 'The Hand of Genuine Friendship', The Sydney Morning Herald (Spectrum), 9-11 April 2004, p.6.

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Alternative title: The Caged Man
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon The Sydney Morning Herald 3-4 April 2004 Z1108462 2004 newspaper issue 2004 pg. 6-7 Section: Spectrum
  • Appears in:
    y separately published work icon Chihuahuas, Women and Me : Essays Louis Nowra , Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2005 Z1219358 2005 selected work essay prose autobiography criticism Artarmon : Giramondo Publishing , 2005 pg. 213-221
    Note: With title: The Caged Man
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