All Our Trials
Prisons, Policing, and the Feminist Fight to End Violence (Revised and Updated Edition)
A vital history of organizing within and beyond the walls of women’s prisons in the 1970s, illuminating a crucial chapter in today’s abolition feminist struggles.
This new edition of an award-winning book features a foreword from acclaimed scholar-activist Sarah Haley and an afterword by Thuma.
reveals a vibrant culture of opposition to interpersonal and state violence that both transforms our understanding of 1970s social movements and illuminates the history of present struggles for transformative justice.
Winner of the 2020 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies
Shortlisted for the Organization of American Historians’ Nickliss Prize and the American Studies Association’s Romero Prize
Emily L. Thuma is an associate professor of politics and law and the Haley Professor of Humanities at the University of Washington Tacoma. She is an interdisciplinary scholar of social movements and the carceral state and a longtime feminist antiviolence advocate and organizer.
