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Tracing the organising efforts of criminalised survivors inside the California Institution for Women during the 1990s, this article explores the social and political history of Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA). Members built communities of self-affirmation and care within institutions designed to stamp out their humanity during an age otherwise marked by punitive legislation, prison expansion and growing incapacitation. How these women fostered collectivity and became political advocates fighting for joint clemency complicates conventional and gendered understandings of the punitive 1990s as a low point in the American prison movement. Narrated from the perspective of incarcerated women organisers who stewarded elaborate care networks and undertook significant political organising, this article restores women's prison organising during the 1990s to the prison movement record, while also showcasing the limits and harms of mainstream anti-violence policies in the lives of incarcerated survivors. Drawing upon incarcerated women's writings, testimonies and oral histories, I examine the politics of mutual care, solidarity and resistance that incarcerated women developed in response to a prison regime that was and remains actively hostile to collectivity of any kind. I argue that care work nurtured sustained political engagement from inside prison.

This article explores the controversial itinerary of Harvey Karman and his development in the 1970s of a manual vacuum abortion method which promised a simpler alternative to traditional methods. It highlights Karman's role, often overlooked in abortion rights narratives, as he navigated the transition from illegal to legal abortion, engaging with feminist collectives, doctors and population controllers. Drawing on diverse sources, it examines Karman's efforts to promote his devices and his complex position within medical and feminist circles. The article argues that post-1972 tension between Karman and feminist activists reveals the gendered alliance dynamics of the abortion movement before and just after Roe v. Wade (1973). It also shows how these tensions encouraged feminist groups to redefine their own practices and led to the delineation of the boundaries of self-help.

This introduction to the forum of articles on ‘Histories of abortion beyond Roe’ addresses the difficulty of telling abortion (hi)stories without reference to the procedure's legal status. A brief survey of the history of reproductive medical interventions and recent scholarship on US abortion history illustrates how the contemporary concept of ‘abortion’ emerged only once abortion could be narrativised in medical and legal terms as an intentional act. Thus, the stories told about abortion had and continue to have the power to shape abortion's meaning, its history and even its legal status, as summaries of the forum's three articles illustrate.

In the 1840s, newspaper reporters and prosecutors in New York City began to use literary tropes about seduction to characterise unmarried women who had abortions. This article uses an 1844 trial over an abortion performed on a young French immigrant woman to demonstrate how the uptake of such tropes obscured women's own perspectives about sexual relations and vilified abortion providers. This process ultimately fostered growing anti-abortion attitudes in the decade before the American Medical Association's campaign to criminalise abortion, revealing the cultural, not just medical, roots of anti-abortion activism in the USA.

The case of Mary Masako Akimoto illuminates how carceral systems based on immigrant criminalisation, known as crimmigration, intersected with gendered notions of decent and indecent work in 1930s America. Mary Akimoto was deported from the USA in compliance with US anti-sex trafficking law for the crime of selling sex in a brothel (indecent work). Yet, as part of her rehabilitation or as a requirement of her release in the months and years that followed her initial arrest, she regularly found herself in coerced labour situations engaging in vocations gendered as decent work.

The legal struggle for women's right to self-defence since the feminist mobilisation against violence in the 1970s reveals the startling history of the briefly expanded, and swiftly foreclosed, strategies for battered women's freedom in the late twentieth century. Voluminous legal scholarship focuses on the uses, promises and shortcomings of battered woman syndrome in the courts. But a historical accounting of the development and legal career of battered woman syndrome is essential to contextualising why this defence strategy took such tenacious root in the courtroom after the feminist self-defence cases of the 1970s and what was lost in the lurch toward a psychological theory of women's protective violence.

This article examines the gendered carceral regime at the Federal Industrial Reformatory for Women at Alderson, West Virginia that was created by its first superintendent, Mary Belle Harris and the experiences of three women political prisoners – Grace Holmes Carlson, Helen Bryan and Elizabeth Gurley Flynn – who served time at Alderson between 1944 and 1960. It offers a critical analysis of Carlson's, Bryan's and Flynn's firsthand accounts of their time in prison to reveal these women's strategies for surviving Alderson's reforming mission that included, paradoxically, both a rejection of the middle-class femininity inherent in that mission and, at times, an accommodation to it.

Huang, A. 2024. “Trans-gender things: Objects and the materiality of trans-femininity in Ming-Qing China.” Gender & History 36: 52–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0424.12766

In the following three citations, volume has been replaced by page numbers:

Citation 5 has been corrected from ‘Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), vol. 87, p. 161’ to ‘Sara Ahmed, Queer Phenomenology: Orientations, Objects, Others (Durham: Duke University Press, 2006), pp. 87, 161’.

Citation 6 has been corrected from ‘Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2011), vol. xxi–xxiv, pp. 181–5’ to ‘Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex (New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2011), pp. xxi–xxiv, 181–5’.

Citation 80 has been corrected from ‘Vitiello, The Libertine's Friend, vol. 34, p. 219’ to ‘Vitiello, The Libertine's Friend, pp. 34, 219’.

In citation 101 two incorrect abbreviations have been removed from the titles of:

‘Jessica Hinchy, Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c. pp. 1850–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)’ should have read ‘Jessica Hinchy, Governing Gender and Sexuality in Colonial India: The Hijra, c.1850–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019)’.

‘Jamey Jesperson, ‘Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive: Re-Membering Trans Feminine Life and Death in New Spain', pp. 1604–1821, Gender & History 36 (2023)’ should have read ‘Jamey Jesperson, ‘Trans Misogyny in the Colonial Archive: Re-Membering Trans Feminine Life and Death in New Spain, 1604–1821’, Gender & History 36 (2024)’.

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