PGP Recommended Reading: Women’s History Month
In celebration of Women’s History Month, we encourage you to learn more about how the criminal legal system impacts women in gender-specific ways. The number of incarcerated women in the United States continues to grow, but discussions of their pathways to incarceration, their experiences while inside and the ways that sexism intersects with sentencing, incarceration and reentry. The PGP team recommends the following books and resources to guide your exploration into this topic.
Chained in SIlence: Black Women and Convict Labor in the New South, Talitha L. LeFlouria
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools, Monique Morris
A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing: The Incarceration of African American Women from Harriet Tubman to Sandra Bland, DaMaris B. Hill
No Mercy Here: Gender, Punishment and the Making of Jim Crow Modernity, Sarah Haley
Searching for Jane Crow: Black Women and Mass Incarceration in America from the Auction Block to the Cell Block, Talitha L. LeFlouria
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence and America’s Prison Nation, Beth Richie
Colored Amazons: Crime, Violence and Black Women in the City of Brotherly Love, Kali Nicole Gross
Abolition. Feminism. Now., Angela Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners and Beth Richie
Talk with You Like a Woman: African American Women, Justice and Reform in New York, Cheryl Hicks
Inside This Place, Not Of It: Narratives from Women’s Prisons, edited by Robin Levi and Ayelet Waldman
The Women’s House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison, Hugh Ryan
Free Cytonia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System, Cytonia Brown-Long
“The Sentence,” HBO Film