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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 9–29.
Published: 01 January 2024
...Emily K. Hobson Abstract This article examines AIDS activism in women’s prisons in the 1980s and 1990s United States through a focus on incarcerated women’s creation and display of panels for the AIDS Quilt. It argues that AIDS Quilt panels made in prison reflected the potential of incarcerated...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 151–166.
Published: 01 May 2023
... Weber, African American and African Studies faculty member at the University of California, Davis, reached out to the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), with its over twenty-six years of relationships with incarcerated women in California prisons. CCWP members Pam Fadem and Rachel Leah...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 1–8.
Published: 01 January 2024
... organizers’ work increased in tandem with government officials’ neglect, the complexity and quality of their art increased, evidencing how their access to self-expression was hard-won. Incarcerated women in the maximum security wing of the Federal Correctional Institution, Marianna, summarized...
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Radical History Review (2024) 2024 (148): 30–48.
Published: 01 January 2024
.... Through them a clearer picture emerged, not only of Monserrate during those turbulent years but also of the nationalist women with whom she was incarcerated, how they survived, and how they cared for each other and held each other up. The story of their imprisonment is one of sisterhood, collective care...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (101): 160–178.
Published: 01 May 2008
... was subjected to four days of terror—including electric shocks, beatings, and psychological torture—and incarcerated in the earliest days of Argentina's “dirty war” of state terrorism. Born in Mexicali, Mexico, and raised in Gilroy, Talamante had attended the University of California at Santa Cruz...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 134–146.
Published: 01 October 2016
...Jennifer Yeager; Jonathan Culleton The case of the Magdalene Laundries illustrates how the Irish state has shaped cultural narratives of gender and facilitated a persistent gendered violence toward women formerly incarcerated in the laundries. The vital role of cultural memory in constructing...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 1–8.
Published: 01 October 2006
... of death. Among tortures, sexual violence is all to familiar to incarcerated women in contemporary and historical prisons, just as sexual vio- lence was central to what historian Nell Irvin Painter identified as the “soul murder- ing” capacity of the United States’ patriarchal chattel slavery...
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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 11–29.
Published: 01 October 2016
... ideologies defined to justify enslavement were later used to criminalize free blacks.8 From early republican Pennsylvania through postbellum Georgia to Progressive Era New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, black girls and women were disproportionately incarcerated and more harshly treated.9 Research...
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Radical History Review (1995) 1995 (62): 24–42.
Published: 01 May 1995
..., incarcerated women are absolutely appropriate queer sub- jects. By failing to measure up to the dominant cultural norm for women, investigations concerning incarcerated women shed signifi- cant light on the construction and maintenance of the norm. QUEER: THEORIZING POLITICS...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 59–83.
Published: 01 May 2023
... ultimately fail to prevent Şenler’s incarceration. The first of many trials in which Şule Yüksel Şenler found herself a defendant began in 1967, following a complaint by the feminist organization Türk Kadınlar Birliği (Turkish Women’s Union) on the grounds that her column in the weekly Islamist Yeni...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2023
... as it spared selected actors. Contemporary actions taken during the imposed isolation of COVID-19 have allowed prisoners to insert themselves in the ongoing debate over the unjust incarceration of poor, minority, and female individuals. Scholars and members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (141): 151–175.
Published: 01 October 2021
... that locks up its mainly Third World, poor and unemployed [people], that oppresses us as women in this country, stands on the domination of oppressed nations and people of color throughout the world and in the US.” 33 The contents of the issue included poetry on women’s resistance to incarceration by Rita...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 112–136.
Published: 01 October 2006
... (and other Kenyan indigenes) as significantly less than human was presumably widely held among British administrators in Kenya even before the inauguration of the system of near-total incarceration of the 1.5 mil- lion Kikuyu. The conditions in which Kikuyu men and women were forced to live within...
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Radical History Review (2017) 2017 (128): 121–146.
Published: 01 May 2017
... believed that in order to be politically involved they needed to reject motherhood. Other independentista women in Rodríguez and Rosado’s networks and beyond, by contrast, became mothers. Some experienced prolonged separations from children as a result of incarceration.8 Recovering the diversity...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 186–196.
Published: 01 May 2021
... for formerly incarcerated people living with HIV. 2 John and I had cofounded TEACH Outside in the summer of 2000 as a political education and community organizing partnership between ACT UP and the formerly incarcerated elders who would go on to form the PCCPHC. Our five-week course was organized around...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (137): 157–176.
Published: 01 May 2020
... similar to what has been happening in the United States for a few decades. This state project aimed at Black men and women has also resulted in lowering the age of penal responsibility and so draws Black children into this prison system. It’s now become a prison industry, which is not only horrible...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (147): 158–185.
Published: 01 October 2023
... mobilities is a concept that historicizes mobility research in terms of colonial and carceral logics. Using this concept, the article provides insight into political actors, namely incarcerated forced laborers of Japanese descent, whose unjust confinement and forced labor on this infrastructural route...
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Radical History Review (2015) 2015 (122): 55–69.
Published: 01 May 2015
... by the omni- present nature of the West’s surveillance of black sexuality. It is not coincidental, for example, that one of the most important recent works on black lesbian experience at the turn of the century is Cheryl Hicks’s history of incarcerated women in New York City.4 While Hicks notes...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 49–77.
Published: 01 May 2021
... Joseph E. “ ‘You’ve Come a Long Way—Maybe’: Working Women, Comparable Worth, and the Transformation of the American Labor Movement, 1964–1989 .” Journal of American History , forthcoming. Hunt Gerald , and Boris Monica Bielski . “ The Lesbian, Gay, and Transgender Challenge to American...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (137): 34–53.
Published: 01 May 2020
... that sculptors used imprisoned and fugitive figures to craft a discourse about power in the absence of both a strong state and a regime of punitive incarceration. Compelling pictures of prisoners and verbal images of captivity flourished as a kind of carceral imaginary in the public landscape before the carceral...
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