Essay

Heteropatriarchy Kills: Challenging Gender Violence in a Prison Nation

Author: Angela P. Harris (University of California, Davis)

  • Heteropatriarchy Kills: Challenging Gender Violence in a Prison Nation

    Essay

    Heteropatriarchy Kills: Challenging Gender Violence in a Prison Nation

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Abstract

We need an analysis that furthers neither the conservative project of sequestering millions of men of color in accordance with the contemporary dictates of globalized capital and its prison industrial complex, nor the equally conservative project of abandoning poor women of color to a continuum of violence that extends from the sweatshops through the prisons, to shelters, and into bedrooms at home. How do we develop analyses and organizing strategies against violence against women that acknowledge the race of gender and the gender of race?

Keywords: Prison violence, Sex crimes, United States, Prison reform, Gender violence

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Published on
01 Jan 2011