All Our Trials

Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4157871
AutoresCarrie N Baker (0000-0003-2257-3208, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume107
Fascículo1
Páginas273-274
Data de publicação2020-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoREVIEW
PeriódicoJournal of American History (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jahist/jaaa162
OpenAlexW3037217778
IdiomaEN

Recent scholarship on the twentieth-century feminist antiviolence movement has focused on white feminist activists who fought for increased criminal sanctions and prosecution of perpetrators as the solution to violence against women (see, for example, Rose Corrigan's Up against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success [2013]). By contrast, Emily L. Thuma's All Our Trials is a much-needed history of anticarceral activism by radical women of color and antiracist white women, many of whom were lesbian-identified. These activists organized against interpersonal and institutional violence that interconnected in the lives of marginalized women in the United States. Thuma begins with the stories of four women of color—Joan Little, Inez Garcia, Dessie Woods, and Yvonne Wanrow—all of whom were prosecuted for using lethal force in self-defense from sexual assault. According to Thuma, powerful grassroots campaigns to free these four women became “coalitional spaces where multiple liberation movements interfaced and cross-fertilized” to challenge “gendered violence and racialized criminalization” (p. 53). She explores in depth the strategies, arguments, and participants in these campaigns

Criminalization · Criminology · Grassroots · Lesbian · Political science · Race (biology · Sanctions · Scholarship · Sociology · White (mutation · Women of color · Gender Studies · Law · Race, History, and American Society