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24 New Eng. J. on Crim. & Civ. Confinement 339 (1998)
Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women

handle is hein.journals/nejccc24 and id is 345 raw text is: SYMPOSIUM Essay Public Imprisonment and Private Violence: Reflections on the Hidden Punishment of Women Angela Y Davis Over the last twenty-five years, feminist research and activism on sexual assault and domestic violence have generated campaigns and services on local, national and international levels and an increasingly popular culture of resistance which has helped to unveil the global pandemic of violence against women. At the same time, research and activism have developed on a much smaller scale around women in prison. The work in these two areas has intersected in a number of important ways, including the amnesty campaign for women convicted of killing abusive spouses or partners. Moreover, one of the salient themes in the current literature on women in prison is the centrality of physical abuse in the lives of women subject to state punishment. Even so, the domestic violence and women's prison movements remain large- ly separate. Considering the enormous increase in the numbers of imprisoned women during this contemporary era of the U.S. prison industrial com- plex, we need to examine the potential for establishing deeper and more extensive alliances between the anti-violence movement and the larger women's prison movement. Therefore, this article explores preliminarily some of the historical and philosophical connections between domestic violence and imprisonment as two modes of gendered punishment-one located in the private realm, the other in the public realm. This analysis suggests that the women's anti-violence movement is far more integrally

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