Mass Incarceration and Abolition Feminism

3 credits · Undergraduate

Feminists as theorists and activists in prison abolition. Decentering the male as the embodiment of mass incarceration. Sexual assault to prison pipeline. Effects of carceral gendering on black women's lives. Economic, psychological, and physiological costs of the emotional labor women provide to men in prison. Nexus of interpersonal and state violence in black women's lives. Kimberle Crenshaw's concept of intersectionality as illuminating the carceral power formation. Not open to students who have completed 3892 section 01 offered spring 2021. [3] (P)