Gwenola Ricordeau

Free Them All (eBook, ePUB)

A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System
Übersetzer: Ramadan, Emma; Roberge, Tom

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839762758
• Artikelnr.: 68274199

Autorenporträt

Gwenola Ricordeau is an associate professor of Criminal Justice at California State University, Chico. She previously taught in higher education for more than a decade in her native France. As a feminist and a penal abolitionist for more than two decades, Gwenola tries to make her scholarship resonates with her activism and personal experience as a relative of prisoners.

Inhaltsangabe

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