Epilogue: Reconsidering Challenges to Confinement. "We Are Dealing with Women:" Race, Gender, and Prison Reform in the Detroit House of Correction, 1926-1957 -- From Mass Action to Class Action: Origins of the Prisoners' Rights Movement for Women -- Contesting Feminism: Self-Defense, Activism, and Clemency for Women in Michigan -- Escaping Death and Serving Life: Retrenchment Politics, Mandatory Minimum Sentences, and Prison Construction -- From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Resisting Violence Against Incarcerated Women -- Epilogue: Reconsidering Challenges to Confinement.
Summary:
"Challenging Confinement is an examination of how the feminist movements in the late twentieth century ignited prison protests, activism, and reform in women's prisons during the era of mass incarceration"-- Provided by publisher.
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