Victoria Law: 3 books

Book cover of Resistance Behind Bars

Resistance Behind Bars

The Struggles of Incarcerated Women

by Victoria Law
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012

As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, this collection of real-life prisoners' stories and analysis of the prison landscape as it is today documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the United States. In 1974,...
Book cover of Birth Work as Care Work

Birth Work as Care Work

Stories from Activist Birth Communities

by Alana Apfel, Silvia Federici, Victoria Law
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2016

Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities. The personal has once more becomes political, and birth workers, supporters, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity....
Book cover of Screening the Nonhuman

Screening the Nonhuman

Representations of Animal Others in the Media

by Joseph Anderton, Michael Atkinson, Fernando Pagnoni Berns
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2016

Screening the Nonhuman draws connections between how animals represented on screen translate into reality. In doing so, the book demonstrates that consuming media is not a neutral act but rather a political one. The images humans consume have real world consequences for how animals are treated as...
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