#MeToo Behind Bars: Sexual Violence Against Incarcerated Women and Anti-Rape Activism

The purpose of this research and this paper is to highlight and analyze the ways in which women in incarceration resist and organize against the sexual violence they experience at the hands of their corrections officers. With the explosion of the prison industrial complex hitting marginalized and working-class communities, women have shouldered the burden of incarceration, increasing at rates exponentially larger than their men counterparts. However, the sufferings and demands of women in incarcerations, unique in a variety of ways has gone unnoticed both by anti-prison activists who are in and out of the carceral state. This research aims to rectify the disparities, to illustrate that women are not passive subjects in incarceration, but are organizing, demanding justice, and building coalitions with other prisoners to create social change for themselves against the exploitation that they face, both because of the subjugation of their labors, and the violence that is being done on their bodies.

Author

• Smith, Nichole M

Language

• en

Keyword

• PREA
• Violence Against Women
• Marxist Feminist Theory
• Mass Incarceration
• Sexual Violence

Date created

• 2019

Type of Work

• Master's Thesis

License

• All rights reserved

Rights statement

• In Copyright

GW Unit

• Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies

Degree

• M.A.

Advisor

• Moshenberg, Daniel

Committee Member(s)

• Matthiesen, Sara

Persistent URL

•  https://scholarspace.library.gwu.edu/etd/3484zh71n