A Feminist Theory of Violence

Françoise Vergès

ISBN 10: 0745345670 / ISBN 13: 9780745345673

Published by Pluto Press, GB, 2022

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'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022***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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Feminist Theory of Violence
• Publisher: Pluto Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0745345670
• ISBN 13: 9780745345673
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 149 grams

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Synopsis

'A robust, decolonial challenge to carceral feminism' - Angela Y. Davis ***Winner of an English PEN Award 2022*** 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.

About the Author

Françoise Vergès is an activist and public educator. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, and is the author of many books including 'A Decolonial Feminism' and 'Wombs of Women'. -- Melissa Thackway is an independent researcher and translator. She lectures in African Cinema at Sciences-Po and INALCO in Paris. Her recent translations include 'Contemporary African Cinema' by Olivier Barlet, 'Tropical Dream Palaces: Cinema-Going in Colonial West Africa' by Odile Goerg and 'African Diasporic Cinema: Aesthetics of Reconstruction' by Daniela Ricci. -- Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Geography at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and the associate director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics. She is the author of 'Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California', and has served as the chair of the American Studies Association and received the 'Angela Davis Award for Public Scholarship'.