All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

by Emily L. Thuma

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252042336
• ISBN13: 9780252042331
• Release Date: March 2019
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"