Abolition. Feminism. Now., Erica Meiners
Abolition. Feminism. Now., Erica Meiners
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Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Author: Erica Meiners, Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Beth Richie

Narrator: Gina Dent

Unabridged: 5 hr 3 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/18/2022

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment—halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing. Yet erased from this landscape are not only the central histories of feminist—usually queer, anticapitalist, grassroots, and women of color—organizing that continue to cultivate abolition but a recognition of a stark reality: abolition is our best response to endemic forms of state and interpersonal gender and sexual violence.Amplifying the analysis and the theories of change generated from vibrant, community-based organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. surfaces necessary historical genealogies, key internationalist learnings, and everyday practices to grow our collective and flourishing present and futures.

About Erica Meiners

Erica R. Meiners is a Professor of Education and Women’s and Gender Studies at Northeastern Illinois University. A writer, organizer, and educator, Meiners is the author For the Children?: Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State, coauthor of The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence, and a coeditor of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom.

About Angela Y. Davis

Angela Y. Davis is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. An activist, writer, and lecturer, her work focuses on prisons, police, abolition and the related intersections of race, gender, and class. She is the author of many books, from Angela Davis: An Autobiography to Freedom Is a Constant Struggle.

About Gina Dent

Gina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies, History of Consciousness, and Legal Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the editor of Black Popular Culture and lectures and writes on African diaspora literary and cultural studies, postcolonial theory, and critical area studies. Her current project, Visualizing Abolition (www.visualizingabolition.ucsc.edu), grows out of her work as an advocate for transformative and transitional justice and prison abolition.

About Beth Richie

Beth E. Richie is head of the Department of Criminology, Law, and Justice and Professor of Black Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Richie is the author of Compelled to Crime: the Gender Entrapment of Black Battered Women and Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation and a coeditor of The Long Term: Resisting Life Sentences, Working Toward Freedom.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Catie on March 01, 2023

To be fair, this was not my first introduction to abolitionist text. That being said, I was really let down by this book. I don’t feel like it added any real nuances to the conversation or challenged me to dig deeper into my opinions on abolition. It felt more like a historical account of abolitioni......more

Goodreads review by Zach on January 26, 2022

This is an excellent introductory text to abolition feminism as the ideological antithesis to carceral/state feminism. I really loved the synthesis of work being done around the country (but especially my hometown Chicago) that shows the possibilities of collective action. But above all, this book i......more

Goodreads review by lau (readbylau) on February 02, 2022

"For example, Chicago's annual budget for substance abuse ($2,581,272) amounts to what Chicago spends on half a day of policing." this was an incredibly informative read that i can recommend to everyone that calls themselves a feminist!!......more

Goodreads review by zara on March 25, 2022

An important genealogy of abolition feminist movements, tracing this work back to examples like Rosa Parks’ anti-rape work that incorporated an analysis of state violence and pointing out the similarities in reformist efforts to build new jails that showed up in the 1930s with the opening of the New......more

Goodreads review by grace on March 08, 2023

an incredibly beautiful and insightful read. i highly recommend!......more

Quotes

“A genealogy of the movements that brought us here, lessons learned, battles won and lost, and the ongoing collective struggle to build a thoroughly revolutionary vision and practice.” Robin D. G. Kelly, author of Freedom Dreams

“Four visionaries…reveal the connections between state violence and intimate violence, between prisons and family policing, and between local and global organizing…The authors compel us to see the urgent necessity of abolition feminism now.” Dorothy Roberts, author of Torn Apart

“Powerful, wise, and well-crafted…The book explains how organizing to end violence without turning to violent institutions such as prisons and the police as remedies, is how we learn what we need to do to make change possible…It gives us a name for what we want. Abolitionism. Now.” Sara Ahmed, author of Willful Subjects

“This book is a lineage of words and visuals, showing us the beauty of our efforts and gently reminding us that we are not failing—we are learning and we are changing.” adrienne maree brown, author of Emergent Strategy

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