During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma 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. All Our Trials 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. Drawing on extensive archival research and first-person narratives, Thuma 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-13
9780252084126
eBay Product ID (ePID)
18046416258
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Sexual Abuse
Author
Emily L Thuma
Publication Name
All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Law, Zoology, Criminology
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
246 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Emily L Thuma
Series Title
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in American History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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