Free them all : a feminist call to abolish the prison system

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Free them all : a feminist call to abolish the prison system

Gwenola Ricordeau ; translated by Tom Roberge and Emma Ramadan ; prologue translated by Anne Seiler ; [foreword by Silvia Federici]

Verso, 2023

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Pour elles toutes : femmes contre la prison

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Summary: "How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve women's liberation? The mainstream feminist movement has proposed "locking up the bad men," and called on prisons, the legal system, and the state to protect women from misogynist violence. This carceral approach to feminism, activist and scholar Gwenola Ricordeau argues, does not make women safer: it harms women, including victims of violence, and in particular people of color, poor people, and LGBTQ people. In this scintillating, comprehensive study, Ricordeau draws from two decades as an abolitionist activist and scholar of the penal justice system to describe how the criminal justice system hurts women. Considering the position of survivors of violence, criminalized women, and women with criminalized relatives, Ricordeau charts a new path to emancipation without incarceration"--Provided by publisher

"This English-language edition published by Verso 2023"--T.p. verso

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How does the criminal justice system affect women's lives? Do prisons keep women safe? Should feminists rely on policing and the law to achieve women's liberation? The mainstream feminist movement has proposed "locking up the bad men," and called on prisons, the legal system, and the state to protect women from misogynist violence. This carceral approach to feminism, activist and scholar Gwenola Ricordeau argues, does not make women safer: it harms women, including victims of violence, and in particular people of color, poor people, and LGBTQ people. In this scintillating, comprehensive study, Ricordeau draws from two decades as an abolitionist activist and scholar of the penal justice system to describe how the criminal justice system hurts women. Considering the position of survivors of violence, criminalized women, and women with criminalized relatives, Ricordeau charts a new path to emancipation without incarceration. With a new foreword by Silvia Federici.

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Preface by Silvia Federici Introduction: My Heart Has Its Reasons Ch 1: Prison Abolition Ch 2: The Victimization of Women and their Treatment by the Penal System Ch 3: Women in the Legal System Ch 4: Women at the Doors of Prisons Ch 5: Prison Abolition and Feminism Ch 6: Self-Emancipation from Prisons and the Building of Autonomy

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