All our Trials : : Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to end Violence

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Call Number: 365.608 Th, Adult Book / Nonfiction / Law / Thuma, Emily L.
On Shelf At: Downtown Library, Traverwood Branch

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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.
"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 psychiatric patients' rights, and gender and sexual liberation...[This book] explores 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...[The author] weaves together the stories of mass defense campaigns, prisoner uprisings, broad-based local coalitions, national gatherings, and radical print cultures that cut through prison walls. In the process, she illuminates a crucial chapter in an unfinished struggle--one that continues in today's movements against mass incarceration and in support of transformative justice."-- Provided by publisher.

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