Reviews
"It is high time to respect Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a founding thinker and actor in the shaping of American society, politics, and ideas. This fascinating book enriches our understanding by giving us her own most eloquent words accompanied by the wise evaluations of some of our leading historians and writers." - Linda K. Kerber, author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship, The selected documents give a taste of Stantons often-contradictory ideas and successfully demonstrate how they evolved over time under the influence of contemporary intellectual movement. This work provides a solid basis for deeper investigations into Stantons role as a nineteenth-century feminist thinker., "The editors are, therefore, successful in their aim: like her or not, Stanton's ideas should be studied by any serious feminist, historian or student of democracy at large." - Feminist Review, "Every member of the Obama administration, of Congress, and of state legislatures should read, study, and reflect upon Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities . A detailed account of how overcriminalization and overincarceration have destroyed individuals, families, and communities, Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities is scrupulously researched and footnoted." - The Federal Lawyer, "I picked up this book wondering what, if anything, even these formidable scholars could tell me about Elizabeth Cady Stanton that I hadn't already read. I put it down in awe—with a new appreciation of Stanton's brilliance, originality, and complexity as the intellectual genius behind the first wave of feminism. Her 19th century vision resonates for everyone in 21st century America." - Lynn Sherr, ABC News, "I picked up this book wondering what, if anything, even these formidable scholars could tell me about Elizabeth Cady Stanton that I hadn't already read. I put it down in awe-;with a new appreciation of Stanton's brilliance, originality, and complexity as the intellectual genius behind the first wave of feminism. Her 19th century vision resonates for everyone in 21st century America." -Lynn Sherr,ABC News, "The editors are, therefore, successful in their aim: like her or not, Stanton's ideas should be studied by any serious feminist, historian or student of democracy at large." -Feminist Review, "Thompson provides a compelling argument that we cannot understand reentry, and indeed criminal justice policy broadly, without analyzing its racial dimensions. He also provides us with a clear road map that helps us to access the state of reentry today, and what we need to do politically and programatically to develop a system that is committed to both public safety and racial fairness." - Marc Mauer, Executive Director, The Sentencing Project, "The selected documents give a taste of Stanton's often-contradictory ideas and successfully demonstrate how they evolved over time under the influence of contemporary intellectual movement. This work provides a solid basis for deeper investigations into Stanton's role as a nineteenth-century feminist thinker." -Choice, "It is high time to respect Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a founding thinker and actor in the shaping of American society, politics, and ideas. This fascinating book enriches our understanding by giving us her own most eloquent words accompanied by the wise evaluations of some of our leading historians and writers." - Linda K. Kerber, author ofNo Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship, "The record size of the U.S. prison population in recent years has received some attention, and it is well known that young men of color are greatly overrepresented in this prison population. The inevitable release annually of hundreds of thousands of these prisoners very disproportionately into inner-city minority communities has been relatively little discussed. In this book, NYU law professor Thompson explores in considerable depth the devastating impact of this mass influx on these communities, and the deeply disturbing lack of adequate programs and appropriate forms of assistance to constructively reintegrate former prisoners back into such communities." - Choice, "The selected documents give a taste of Stanton's often-contradictory ideas and successfully demonstrate how they evolved over time under the influence of contemporary intellectual movement. This work provides a solid basis for deeper investigations into Stanton's role as a nineteenth-century feminist thinker." - Choice ,, "I picked up this book wondering what, if anything, even these formidable scholars could tell me about Elizabeth Cady Stanton that I hadn't already read. I put it down in awe;with a new appreciation of Stanton's brilliance, originality, and complexity as the intellectual genius behind the first wave of feminism. Her 19th century vision resonates for everyone in 21st century America." - Lynn Sherr, ABC News, "Three recent books by scholars who happen to be black men eloquently attest to these broader effects of the racial disparities in our criminal justice system. . . . For New York University law professor Anthony Thompson, author of Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities: Reentry, Race, and Politics , it is critical that we examine 'the pervasive interplay of race, power, and politics that infuse and confuse our attitudes about crime.' " - New York Review of Books, "It is high time to respect Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a founding thinker and actor in the shaping of American society, politics, and ideas. This fascinating book enriches our understanding by giving us her own most eloquent words accompanied by the wise evaluations of some of our leading historians and writers." -Linda K. Kerber,author of No Constitutional Right to Be Ladies: Women and the Obligations of Citizenship, The selected documents give a taste of Stanton's often-contradictory ideas and successfully demonstrate how they evolved over time under the influence of contemporary intellectual movement. This work provides a solid basis for deeper investigations into Stanton's role as a nineteenth-century feminist thinker., "The selected documents give a taste of Stanton's often-contradictory ideas and successfully demonstrate how they evolved over time under the influence of contemporary intellectual movement. This work provides a solid basis for deeper investigations into Stanton's role as a nineteenth-century feminist thinker." - Choice, The editors are, therefore, successful in their aim: like her or not, Stanton's ideas should be studied by any serious feminist, historian or student of democracy at large., I picked up this book wondering what, if anything, even these formidable scholars could tell me about Elizabeth Cady Stanton that I hadn't already read. I put it down in awe;with a new appreciation of Stantons brilliance, originality, and complexity as the intellectual genius behind the first wave of feminism. Her 19th century vision resonates for everyone in 21st century America., It is high time to respect Elizabeth Cady Stanton as a founding thinker and actor in the shaping of American society, politics, and ideas. This fascinating book enriches our understanding by giving us her own most eloquent words accompanied by the wise evaluations of some of our leading historians and writers., "Accessible and comprehensive, Releasing Prisoners, Redeeming Communities delves into the most pressing legal issue of prisoner reentry. . . . Thompson provides a much needed look at this dire social issue through an expert legal lens. This is an important book and I highly recommend it to legal scholars, policy makers, criminologists, and concerned citizens." - Joan Petersilia, author of When Prisoners Come Home: Parole and Prisoner Reentry, I picked up this book wondering what, if anything, even these formidable scholars could tell me about Elizabeth Cady Stanton that I hadn't already read. I put it down in awe-;with a new appreciation of Stanton's brilliance, originality, and complexity as the intellectual genius behind the first wave of feminism. Her 19th century vision resonates for everyone in 21st century America., The editors are, therefore, successful in their aim: like her or not, Stantons ideas should be studied by any serious feminist, historian or student of democracy at large., "The editors are, therefore, successful in their aim: like her or not, Stanton's ideas should be studied by any serious feminist, historian or student of democracy at large." - Feminist Review ,
