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Pollution, Prisons, And The Power Of Women: Does Women's Leadership In Government Decrease Emissions Caused By The Prison Industrial Complex?, Chanel Ison, Julius Mcgee
Pollution, Prisons, And The Power Of Women: Does Women's Leadership In Government Decrease Emissions Caused By The Prison Industrial Complex?, Chanel Ison, Julius Mcgee
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Pollution caused by large corporations is the primary reason for environmental degradation and the prison industrial complex is no exception. The purpose of this study is to contextualize the carceral system and its relationship to climate change from a critical ecofeminist perspective. Critical ecofeminism contends that the patriarchal nature of capitalism forces women to generate forms of resistance against essentialist systems--which attributes to their broader understanding of environmental degradation and the oppression of marginalized identities. Using the Fact Sheet Archive on Women in State Legislatures (1997-2016) which reports the percentage of women-identified legislators and governors in the US, this study …