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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...
FIGURES
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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
...’ views and activities may result in the recirculation of their stories in the service of political projects that do not fully align with their own. The incarceration of the Islamist icon Şule Yüksel Şenler (1938–2019) in 1971 presents an excellent vantage point from which to analyze these dynamics...
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Radical History Review (2023) 2023 (146): 1–9.
Published: 01 May 2023
... incarceration of poor, minority, and female individuals. Scholars and members of the California Coalition for Women Prisoners (CCWP), an organization composed of prison activists inside and outside prison, voiced their opposition to the extremely isolating and repressive measures that arose during the pandemic...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (141): 151–175.
Published: 01 October 2021
... or two issues while incarcerated at Washington Corrections Center for Women at Purdy. 19 Red Dragon ’s first issue has not survived, but it appears to have started sometime in 1978 during Mead’s incarceration in Washington State Penitentiary. 20 Though many issues of the Red Dragon have been lost...
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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
... 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 of ways that independentista
women crafted...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 186–196.
Published: 01 May 2021
... & Women in Prison Ministries to reduce the harm of prisons. Philadelphia was Waheedah’s and my turf; there we united our longtime TEACH Outside comrades to build “a reentry center without walls” that brought the range of programs formerly incarcerated people need to them on their time. 21 Each...
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Radical History Review (2020) 2020 (137): 157–176.
Published: 01 May 2020
... by the state, members of Reaja suggest that theirs is already a world without police. Figure 1. “Projeto Ururu”: Black women forming a protective barrier around men at a protest against police brutality, “Fourth International March against the Genocide of Black People,” organized by Reaja ou Será Morta...
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Radical History Review (2021) 2021 (140): 49–77.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of union leaders on HIV/AIDS in 1994. 105 A year later, the Coalition of Labor Union Women organized a meeting that brought nearly three hundred participants from twenty-nine unions to a two-day conference focused on “energizing national, regional and local labor support for programs focused...
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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 (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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Radical History Review (2016) 2016 (126): 1–10.
Published: 01 October 2016
... and regulation of female
sexuality, showcasing the state’s penchant for overreach, the resulting incarceration
of suspected prostitutes, and the license such laws gave to harassment of women
in the public sphere. In the United States, efforts to curb domestic violence foun-
dered on stereotypes...
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Radical History Review (2006) 2006 (96): 95–111.
Published: 01 October 2006
... in incarceration rates. And Valley towns are subject to frequent and often
brutal raids and dragnets by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and
other law enforcement agencies targeting the sizable immigrant populations.
Valley residents remain on the front lines of an unprecedented prison...
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Radical History Review (2007) 2007 (98): 34–62.
Published: 01 May 2007
... for activism. Anarchist prison memoirs recounted struggles
to humanize the prison and create solidarity among prisoners, carrying on their
pre-incarceration goal of humanizing society as a whole. Because anarchists already
regarded their societies as prison houses, the carceral experience was for them...
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Radical History Review (2008) 2008 (100): 11–37.
Published: 01 January 2008
... Kunzel
On June 28, 1970, the first gay march in New York City commemorating the Stone-
wall rebellion of the preceding year passed the Women’s House of Detention. The
march’s route was not an accident. The jail was symbolically important, having held
many renowned activists. Catholic radical...
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