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GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL DOLL

ERIC REDDING

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GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL DOLL is a book by ERIC REDDING. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.

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About the work

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GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL DOLL is a book by ERIC REDDING. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime.

Its interest lies partly in the way literary or informational writing gets collapsed into a public-morality problem. As a book, it can be read not only for subject matter but for the way form, tone, and circulation make a text feel dangerous, intimate, or politically usable to anxious officials.

It also matters as part of a wider censorship history in Texas. The present page is a dossier starter built from source-tracked ban records; the surviving note currently says: The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PAGES 4 & 9 OF. More publication history, translations, and close reading can be added later.

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Why it was banned

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GREAT BIG BEAUTIFUL DOLL entered censorship debates as a book associated with circulation politics, institutional control, morality, print scandal, risk knowledge, and sexuality. In the current dossier, the main state objections cluster around instructional harm, public order, obscenity, and public morality.

The earliest event currently captured here is 2012-10-09 in Wisconsin, where Wisconsin corrections agencies and prison mailrooms excluded from prison circulation. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported row does not preserve a. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported row does not preserve a fuller justification.

The record already stretches across Wisconsin and Texas, which is why the page should be read as a cross-border censorship trail rather than a single isolated dispute.

This page is intentionally incomplete. The ban history is a starter dataset, not a final census of every jurisdiction or decree.

Counter and critical readings

Context, rebuttals, and criticism

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Ban history

Known government actions

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Date Jurisdiction Action Reason Note
2012-10-09 Wisconsin excluded from prison circulation The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported row does not preserve a. The Wisconsin prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported row does not preserve a fuller justification.
2020-11-09 Texas excluded from prison circulation The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PAGES 4 & 9 OF. The Texas prison-ban record treats the book as excluded reading inside state custody, which shows how prison and mailroom censorship function as a government reading regime. The exported reason says: PAGES 4 & 9 OF PHOTO INSERT BETWEEN PAGES 64 & 65 SEXUALLY.

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