التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Surviving domestic and state violence: Women's prison organising and the gendered politics of solidarity. |
| المؤلفون: |
Klein, Rachel Leah |
| المصدر: |
Gender & History; Oct2024, Vol. 36 Issue 3, p952-968, 17p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
VICTIMS of domestic violence, POLITICAL participation of prisoners, REFORMATORIES for women, SOLIDARITY, POLITICS & gender, CLEMENCY, WOMEN prisoners, VIOLENCE against women |
| مستخلص: |
Tracing the organising efforts of criminalised survivors inside the California Institution for Women during the 1990s, this article explores the social and political history of Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA). Members built communities of self‐affirmation and care within institutions designed to stamp out their humanity during an age otherwise marked by punitive legislation, prison expansion and growing incapacitation. How these women fostered collectivity and became political advocates fighting for joint clemency complicates conventional and gendered understandings of the punitive 1990s as a low point in the American prison movement. Narrated from the perspective of incarcerated women organisers who stewarded elaborate care networks and undertook significant political organising, this article restores women's prison organising during the 1990s to the prison movement record, while also showcasing the limits and harms of mainstream anti‐violence policies in the lives of incarcerated survivors. Drawing upon incarcerated women's writings, testimonies and oral histories, I examine the politics of mutual care, solidarity and resistance that incarcerated women developed in response to a prison regime that was and remains actively hostile to collectivity of any kind. I argue that care work nurtured sustained political engagement from inside prison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| قاعدة البيانات: |
Complementary Index |