All our trials : prisons, policing, and the feminist fight to end violence

Book

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

Summary:

"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.

Record details

ISBN: 9780252042331
ISBN: 0252042336
ISBN: 9780252084126
ISBN: 0252084128
Physical Description: x, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2019]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (pages 166-217) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: 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.