Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Estarão as prisões obsoletas? by Angela Y. Davis

24 reviews

mirandaleighhhh's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

This was a reread for me…highly recommend as a starting off point as to why the prison industrial complex must be abolished, especially if you have little to no knowledge about the history of the prison system up to today. From 2003 but increasinglyyyy relevant to today. Good sources.

However abolitionist alternatives are the smallest section of this piece, so if that is what you are looking for you’ll need to branch off. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Emotional abuse, Homophobia, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Sexual harassment, and Classism

julianam's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape and Sexual assault

Moderate: Police brutality

cummunism's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Rape

jessmbark's review against another edition

challenging informative fast-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Rape, Slavery, and Violence

Moderate: Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Classism

jessereadsthings's review against another edition

informative fast-paced

4.0

An interesting and well written introduction to the prison industrial complex and prison abolition. Definitely recommend reading it. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Slavery, Torture, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Police brutality

headachesince03's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Confinement, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Mental illness, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Islamophobia, Medical content, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Murder, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Classism

antijeffbozo_love2read's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Domestic abuse, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, and Violence

Moderate: Confinement, Forced institutionalization, Islamophobia, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Drug use, Mental illness, Pedophilia, Rape, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, and Murder

zombiezami's review against another edition

informative medium-paced

4.5

Foundational text is foundational 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Death, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Police brutality, Murder, and Classism

Moderate: Domestic abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Forced institutionalization, Medical content, Medical trauma, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, Injury/Injury detail, and Deportation

Minor: Addiction, Drug abuse, Drug use, and Sexual harassment

Lynching

novella42's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring sad slow-paced

5.0

A powerful read, and a perspective shift I had never thought to question before. I'm glad I had the author-read audiobook, spending five hours listening to the incomparable Angela Davis was well worth the time.

"What would it mean to imagine a system in which punishment is not allowed to become the source of corporate profit? How can we imagine a society in which race and class are not primary determinants of punishment? Or one in which punishment itself is no longer the central concern in the making of justice? 

"An abolitionist approach that seeks to answer questions such as these would require us to imagine a constellation of alternative strategies and institutions, with the ultimate aim of removing the prison from the social and ideological landscapes of our society."

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Confinement, Death, Drug abuse, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Murder, Pregnancy, Classism, and Deportation

jessthanthree's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Racism, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, and Police brutality

Moderate: Torture, Forced institutionalization, Medical trauma, and Classism

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Rape, Murder, and Deportation