Review of Wall Tappings: An International Anthology of Women’s Prison Writings 200 to the Present by Clarinda Harris
Women’s bodies do two things that make women easier to punish than men: menstruate and give birth. That biology controls the destiny of women in prison is obvious in the statistics alone, from the ‘positive side’ (women’s generally less violent offenses and shorter sentences), to the most negative (the frequency with which incarcerated women, unlike…