From historical and internationalist perspective, critically examines such topics as: crimes and punishment of women from the witch hunts to the present; institutionalized violence against incarcerated women; women loving women in prison; Native women’s acts of resistance; Hollywood’s formulaic women-in-prison films; and the revolutionary Santa Cruz Women’s Project (1972-76), which Faith co-founded.
Faith, Karlene. Unruly Women: The Politics of Confinement & Resistance. Press Gang Publishers, 1993.
