...This chapter examines prison experiences of women who joined two Peruvian left-wing armed groups, the Peruvian Communist Party-Shining Path and the Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement. Female participation in this recent stage of political violence in Peru (1980-2000) was widespread, which led...

...Chapter 2 examines the resistance of women prisoners and their supporters’ opposition to the use of medicalized behavior-modification regimes in prisons during the 1970s. The Coalition to Stop Institutional Violence, a broad-based, feminist-led alliance in Massachusetts that included advocates...

...Writing in the 1920s for a Soviet Russian audience, Semyon Sibiriakov (1888-1937) painted one of the few extant portraits of Jewish anarchist culture told from within the movement: particularly, of post-1905 Jewish anarchism and anarchists in tsarist prisons. His stories show a distinctive aspect...

... prisons. The chapter shows that declaring States of Emergency has been necessary and that coping strategies require holistic, multidimensional, and local-global engagements. crime Holness Andrew homicides Jamaica United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Venezuela domestic violence drugs firearms...

...This chapter examines how high rates of Black male incarceration, enabled by the war on drugs that swept tens of thousands of Black men into state prisons, exacerbated the HIV/AIDS epidemic among Black Chicagoans. As HIV/AIDS emerged in the early 1980s, prisons became key sites where the disease...

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...Chapter 3 analyzes women’s prison newsletters as a feminist counterpublic that enabled incarcerated women to communicate with one another and with anticarceral feminist activists in the “free world.” Two newsletters, Through the Looking Glass and No More Cages...

... and make it a contested space because of racial and sexual meaning. Part 1 focuses on movement through public space (through streets and across borders) and on how state-backed interruptions seek to inhibit queer bodies. Part 2 explores movement through institutional spaces (prisons and hospitals), which...

...All Our Trials: Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence is a history of grassroots activism by, for, and about incarcerated domestic violence survivors, criminalized rape resisters, and dissident women prisoners in the 1970s and early 1980s. Across the country...

...Carceral liberalism, as a way to understand the ubiquity of prisons in the United States, a nation grounded on ideas of freedom and autonomy, undergirds systems of patriarchy, imperialism and capitalism that are at work in the modern manifestation of empire. The introduction connects existing...

... shaped not only military bodies but also permeated schools, prisons, and museums as well. In addition, the chapter looks at how the nineteenth-century individual would come to experience tactile sensations in a vastly different city and domestic space from that of the Middle Ages. Moreover, it examines...

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