Reviews tagging 'Sexual violence'

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

38 reviews

lulugirl297's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence

picoledenaranja's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Police brutality, Classism, Violence, and Sexual violence

Minor: Rape and Xenophobia

bseigel's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad slow-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual violence, Sexual assault, and Sexual harassment

Minor: Racial slurs and Racism

eewetter's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Sexual assault and Sexual violence

Minor: Child death

ericadawson's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful informative inspiring sad tense fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Sexual violence, Racism, and Sexual assault

livreads16's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Xenophobia, Misogyny, Mental illness, Addiction, Alcoholism, and Rape

Minor: Islamophobia and Slavery

flamingtashhh's review

emotional hopeful informative reflective fast-paced

5.0

I mean, it’s a classic for a reason. Often cited and never replicated, Davis’ work just had me unraveling question after question. I feel like a lot of the material that she covered is material I’m familiar with at this point, but because her work has been cited so often. 

Some things I’d like to explore more following this book:
1. The colonization of the land by prisons. What effect on the environment and our connection to it does the logic and PHYSICAL fact of prisons have? 
2. Racial capitalism and borders. How does the global migration of labor impact prisons? What similarities does this share with the Atlantic Slave Trade? 
3. Gender-making and prisons. What does the logic of prison reform do to our notions of gender? How is this related to colonial notions of gender and citizenship? 
4. Punishment and violence, specifically an expansion of the idea that domestic and sexual violence is the basis of punishment in women’s prisons. 

There’s more.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Sexual assault, Police brutality, Murder, Slavery, Violence, Suicide, Sexual harassment, Physical abuse, Mental illness, Kidnapping, Homophobia, Hate crime, Emotional abuse, Domestic abuse, Confinement, Colonisation, Classism, Torture, Sexual violence, Medical trauma, Injury/Injury detail, Death, Sexism, and Forced institutionalization

nickshutter's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Classism, Death, Police brutality, Racism, Sexism, Confinement, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Hate crime, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, and Slavery

Moderate: Homophobia, Domestic abuse, Medical trauma, Murder, Torture, and Xenophobia

Minor: Alcoholism, Islamophobia, Drug abuse, Grief, and War

emily_pns's review against another edition

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

Incredibly well written. Very heavy subject matter was handled with matter of fact language that helped the reader understand the authors points clearly, while still envoking empathy for those who have been used and abused by the prison system.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Slavery, and Sexual violence

amberinbookland's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape, Racism, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Xenophobia, Murder, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use