GWS 395-01 - Advanced Special Topic: Abolitionist Feminisms

4 credits (Fall)

Prisons are among the most rigidly sex-segregated institutions in the United States, and women are the fastest-growing demographic of incarcerated people. How did the prison industrial complex emerge as part of an intersectional matrix of domination? This class will center the unique challenges faced by incarcerated women and LGBTQ+ people as well as strategies for survival, solidarity, and resistance. Can feminist approaches help shift us away from mass incarceration, toward community care and restorative justice?

Prerequisite: GWS 111 and one 200-level GWS or cross-listed course; with grades S, C, or better.
Instructor: Montague