Citation

Cee Whitehead J. Fem. Theor. 2007; 8(3): 299-314.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1464700107082367

PMID

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Abstract

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.