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. Doris Lessing’s frank, intellectual classic of feminism, socialism and women’s liberation was so provocative to readers and critics at the time that people seriously wondered whether it wouldn’t instigate a full-blown war of the sexes.
In this seminal book from turn of the millennium, Davis explores the problematic history and evolution of the American prison system, confronting biases inherent in law enforcement, the scourge of exploitative for-profit prisons and the way that incarceration developed in the wake of slavery as a means to continue subjugating black and brown bodies and reinforce the white status quo. Her simple solution? Don’t merely reform prisons. Abolish them.
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