Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women by Victoria Law

Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

Victoria Law

288 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction feminism gender politics emotional reflective fast-paced
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In 1974, women imprisoned at New York's maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took...

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