RT Article
T1 Abolitionist Feminism as Prisons Close: fighting the Racist and Misogynist Surveillance “Child Welfare” System
JF The prison journal
VO 99
IS 4
SP 504
OP 511
A1 Michalsen, Venezia
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1743019696
AB The global prison industrial complex was built on Black and brown women’s bodies. This economy will not voluntarily loosen its hold on the bodies that feed it. White carceral feminists traditionally encourage State punishment, while anti-carceral, intersectional feminism recognizes that it empowers an ineffective and racist system. In fact, it is built on the criminalization of women’s survival strategies, creating a “victimization to prison pipeline.” But prisons are not the root of the problem; rather, they are a manifestation of the over-policing of Black women’s bodies, poverty, and motherhood. Such State surveillance will continue unless we disrupt these powerful systems both inside and outside prisons.
K1 Prison abolition
K1 Prison industrial complex
K1 Women of color
DO 10.1177/0032885519852091