Free Them All - A Feminist Call to Abolish the Prison System

An indispensable guide to the feminist case for prison abolition

List of contents

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

About the author

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.

Summary

An indispensable guide to the feminist case for prison abolition

Product details

• Authors: Gwenola Ricordeau
• Assisted by: Federici Silvia (Foreword), Emma Ramadan (Translation), Ramadan Emma (Translation), Tom Roberge (Translation)
• Publisher: Verso
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2023
• EAN: 9781839762734
• ISBN: 978-1-83976-273-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Feminism and feminist theory, Penology and punishment, Prisons, Penology & punishment, Causes & Prevention Of Crime, Causes and prevention of crime