Cover Image

All our trials : prisons, policing, and the feminist fight to end violence / Emily L. Thuma.

Show other versions (1)

"During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. [The author] traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, prisoners' and psychi...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thuma, Emily L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]
Series:Women, gender, and sexuality in American history.
Subjects:
Women prisoners > United States.
Abused women > United States.
Women > Violence against > United States.
Women > Crimes against > United States.
Feminist criminology > United States.
Criminal justice, Administration of > United States.
Prisonnières > États-Unis.
Femmes victimes de violence > États-Unis.
Femmes > Violence envers > États-Unis.
Femmes > Crimes contre > États-Unis.
Féminisme et criminologie > États-Unis.
Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis.
Abused women.
Criminal justice, Administration of.
Feminist criminology.
Women > Crimes against.
Women prisoners.
Women > Violence against.
United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Lessons in self-defense : from "free Joan Little" to "free them all"
  • Diagnosing institutional violence : forging alliances against the "prison/psychiatric state"
  • Printing abolition : the transformative power of women's prison newsletters
  • Intersecting indictments : coalitions for women's safety, racial justice, and the right to the city.

Similar Items