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Barbara Deming

Born

in New York City, New York, The United States

July 23, 1917

Died

August 02, 1984

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Barbara Deming (July 23, 1917 – August 2, 1984) was an American feminist and advocate of nonviolent social change.

arbara Deming was born in New York City. She attended a Friends (Quaker) school up through her high school years.

Deming directed plays, taught dramatic literature and wrote and published fiction and non-fiction works. On a trip to India, she began reading Gandhi, and became committed to a non-violent struggle, with her main cause being Women's Rights. She later became a journalist, and was active in many demonstrations and marches over issues of peace and civil rights. She was a member of a group that went to Hanoi during the Vietnam War, and was jailed many times for non-violent protest.

In 1975, Deming founded The Money for Wom ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 71 ratings · 11 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Prisons That Could Not Hold by Barbara Deming, Judith McDaniel, Grace Paley (Introduction) 4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1985 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Humming Under My Feet: A Book of Travail 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Prison notes 4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1966 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Cannot Live Without Our Lives 4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1974 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pink Poodle Pie: Other Tales of How Women Get Even it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolution and Equilibrium 4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Back at the Farm: Raising Livestock on a Small Scale 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remembering Who We Are by Barbara Deming, Gwenda Blair (Contributor), Kathy Brown (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1981 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up Barefoot in the South: Essays from a Southern Writer it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two Essays: On Anger & New Men, New Women 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“...the court, as now constituted, would be meaningless without the jail which gives it its power. But if there is anything I have learned by being in jail, it is that prisons are wrong, simply and unqualifiedly wrong.”
― Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold

tags: abolition, courts, jail, prison

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“Violence is already active here; it is built into the very structure od the existing society. If we seek a world in which men do the least possible violence to each other (which is to state just the negative of it), then we are committed not simply to try to avoid violence ourselves, but to try to destroy patterns of violence which already exist.”
― Barbara Deming, Prisons That Could Not Hold

tags: abolition, prison, violence

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“I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive”
― Barbara Deming

tags: 99-percent, amusing-ourselves-to-death, contructive-vs-destructive, end-of-civilization, end-of-culture, enemies, occupy-wall-street, oppression, oppressors, power, snakes-in-suits, socipaths, the-military-industrial-complex, war

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