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Resisting Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex an Interview with Victoria Law

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Thursday, November 11, 2010 Resisting Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex --An interview with Victoria Law Resisting Gender Violence and the Prison Industrial Complex --An interview with Victoria Law By Angola 3 News Victoria Law is a longtime prison activist and the author of the 2009 book, Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (PM Press). Law?s essay ?Sick of the Abuse: Feminist Responses to Sexual Assault, Battering, and Self Defense,? is featured in the new book, entitled The Hidden 1970s: Histories of Radicalism, edited by Dan Berger. In this interview, Law discusses her new article, which provides a history of radical feminist resistance to the criminalization of women who have defended themselves from gender violence...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on November 14, 2010 (boomark / email).