Captive Genders

Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Author: Eric A. Stanley
Secondary Author: Nat Smith
ISBN: 9781849352345

 "Captive Genders is an exciting assemblage of writings—analyses, manifestos, stories, interviews—that traverse the complicated entanglements of surveillance, policing, imprisonment, and the production of gender normativity. Focusing discerningly on the encounter of transpersons with the apparatuses that constitute the prison industrial complex, the contributors to this volume create new frameworks and new vocabularies that surely will have a transformative impact on the theories and practices of twenty-first century abolition."—Angela Y. Davis, professor emerita, University of California, Santa Cruz"The contributors to Captive Genders brilliantly shatter the assumption that the antidote to danger is human sacrifice. In other words, for these thinkers: where life is precious life is precious."—Ruth Wilson Gilmore, author of Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California"Captive Genders is at once a scathing and necessary analysis of the p

Publisher: AK Press
Publish Date: 2015-10-01

Subjects: Law / Gender & the Law, Social Science / Gender Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Trans Justice)