Document Type
Book Review
Publication Date
4-20-2022
ISSN
2330-1295
Publisher
JOTWELL
Language
en-US
Abstract
In a moment when mass incarceration, police reform, and abolition are dominating national headlines, Aya Gruber’s book, The Feminist War on Crime: The Unexpected Role of Women’s Liberation in Mass Incarceration, takes on one of the most complicated questions of the politics of policing and incarceration: gender violence. Her book provides a history of the uncomfortable relationship between the carceral state and feminist organizing to end violence against women. And, it offers a path forward that begins to address mistakes of the past by reigniting those modes of feminism focused on poverty, welfare, and race that were sidelined with the rise of what is now called “carceral feminism.”
Recommended Citation
Aziza Ahmed,
Recovering Feminist Lessons From the Past For a Less Carceral Future
,
in
JOTWELL
(2022).
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https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3357
