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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thuma, Emily L., author.

Haley, Sarah, author of forward.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women prisoners--United States.

Women prisoners.

Abused women--United States.

Abused women.

Women--Violence against--United States.

Women.

Women--Crimes against--United States.

Feminist criminology--United States.

Feminist criminology.

Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Haymarket Books, 2024.

Summary:

A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women's prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today's abolition feminist struggles. This new edition of an award-winning book features a foreword from acclaimed scholar-activist Sarah Haley and an afterword by Thuma. During the 1970s, grassroots activists within and beyond the walls of women's prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Scholar-activist Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this anticarceral feminism at the intersections of struggles for racial and economic justice, imprisoned and institutionalized people's rights, and gender and sexual liberation. All Our Trials chronicles the organizing, ideas, and influence of those who placed criminalized and marginalized women at the heart of their antiviolence mobilizations. This activism confronted a "tough on crime" political agenda and clashed with the mainstream women's movement's strategy of resorting to the criminal legal system as a solution to sexual and domestic violence. Drawing on extensive research, Thuma weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, coalition organizing, and activist publications that cut through prison walls. I

Contents:

Introduction

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

Epilogue.

Notes:

Includes index

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ISBN:

9798888902868

OCLC:

1458756506