Reviews tagging 'Rape'

Estarão as prisões obsoletas? by Angela Y. Davis

24 reviews

bootsmom3's review against another edition

challenging dark hopeful informative sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Police brutality, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Drug use and Alcohol

oworthyfool's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Physical abuse, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Transphobia, Medical content, and Murder

tigerlark's review against another edition

challenging dark informative inspiring medium-paced

4.25

A deeply informative book that changed my mind on several things! I wish Davis had gone a little further in explaining restorative justice and how that looks in a more practical context. But it was still a fascinating read!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Rape, Sexual assault, and Sexual violence

Moderate: Slavery, Torture, Violence, and Police brutality

thoughtsontomes's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

This is a good starting point for studying the links between prisons, capitalism, and racism. It does provide some starting points for alternatives to prisons at the end, but that topic requires further reading. This is much more about the point of the title - that prisons should be obsolete and what is happening behind closed doors. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Emotional abuse, Racism, Rape, Slavery, and Torture

michaelion's review against another edition

hopeful informative fast-paced

4.25

I'd like to propose the opposite of Betteridge's law of headlines: Angela Y. Davis' law of book titles, which states that if a book asks the reader a question than answer as probably yes.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Misogyny, Racism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Violence, Forced institutionalization, and Police brutality

Moderate: Addiction, Death, Domestic abuse, Xenophobia, Trafficking, Murder, Colonisation, and Classism

Minor: Drug abuse, Drug use, Rape, and Deportation

picoledenaranja's review against another edition

challenging hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

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

Minor: Rape and Xenophobia

livreads16's review against another edition

challenging informative slow-paced

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Content Warnings

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

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

Minor: Slavery and Islamophobia

flamingtashhh's review against another edition

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

nickshutter's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

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Content Warnings

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

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

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

amberinbookland's review against another edition

challenging informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

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

Moderate: Drug abuse and Drug use