Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women

Name: Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women
ISBN: 9781620972130

Becoming Ms. Burton: From Prison to Recovery to Leading the Fight for Incarcerated Women connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Prison Abolition Women's Rights Trauma and Healing Economic Empowerment Social Movements

📝 Book Review & Summary

This book takes safety back from the language of police, prisons, and punishment, turning instead toward survivor support, community accountability, institutional critique, and long repair. It does not romanticize community response; it asks what capacities must be built when people refuse to outsource harm to state violence.

For FemRes, it complements critiques of carceral feminism, anti-sexual-violence resources, Black feminism, and disability justice. It shows abolition not only as opposition to cages, but as a project of reorganizing care, responsibility, and safety.

Publication Info

Author: Susan Burton, Cari Lynn

Published: May 9, 2017

ISBN: 9781620972130

Language: English

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