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A Feminist Theory of Violence
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ISBN-13:
9780745345673
Veröffentl:
2022
Erscheinungsdatum:
20.04.2022
Seiten:
146
Autor:
Françoise Vergès
Gewicht:
150 g
Format:
196x131x12 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, activist, historian, film producer and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism, A Feminist History of Violence and the forthcoming A Programme of Absolute Disorder. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, UCL.
The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety
Introduction1. Neoliberal Violence2. Race, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Women's Protection3. Punitive Feminism, an ImpasseConclusion - For a Decolonial Feminist PoliticsNotes
The mainstream conversation surrounding gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words suggest a cruel reality. But they also hide another reality: that of gendered violence committed with the complicity of the State.In this book, Françoise Vergès denounces the carceral turn in the fight against sexism. By focusing on 'violent men', we fail to question the sources of their violence. There is no doubt as to the underlying causes: racial capitalism, ultra-conservative populism, the crushing of the Global South by wars and imperialist looting, the exile of millions and the proliferation of prisons these all put masculinity in the service of a policy of death.Against the spirit of the times, Françoise Vergès refuses the punitive obsession of the State in favour of restorative justice.