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Feminist prison activism

An assessment of empowerment

University of California, Berkeley, whitehej{at}pacificu.edu

In the following ethnography of the California Coalition of Women Prisoners (CCWP), who exist at the forefront of feminist prison activism, I address canonical feminist debates focused on the relationship between subjectivity, experience, knowledge, and power by closely following an explicit attempt at political reform by and for women. I argue that feminist prison activists' attempts to reform the American prison system reveal why feminist theorists must remain committed to a specific, contextual, and localized analysis of the prospects for political empowerment.

Key Words: consciousness-raising • empowerment • feminist political action • feminist theory • women in prison

Feminist Theory, Vol. 8, No. 3, 299-314 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1464700107082367


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