Carceral FeminismBooks

No More Police reframes safety by taking it out of punishment infrastructure and into care, survivor support, and social redesign, advancing abolitionist feminist and transformative justice frameworks.

This collaborative work traces abolition feminism through women-of-color, queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist movement histories.

Prison by Any Other Name: The Harmful Consequences of Popular Reforms connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Decarcerating Disability: Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Emily L. Thuma reconstructs the anticarceral politics developed from the 1970s into the early 1980s by criminalized women and Black, queer, prisoner, and psychiatric-survivor organizers.

Andrea Ritchie documents police violence against Black women, Indigenous women, immigrant women, sex workers, and trans women whose experiences are often erased from public narratives.

Color of Violence: The INCITE! Anthology connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States connects punishment, gender, race, and community safety, strengthening FemRes coverage of abolition feminism and transformative justice.

Angela Y. Davis’s classic short book denaturalizes prisons as historical institutions and asks readers to imagine justice and safety beyond incarceration.