Survivor Injustice
State-sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
Berkeley, CA : North Atlantic Books, [2023]
Format: Book
Description: 296 pages ; 23 cm
"Survivor Injustice shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a "private matter" perpetrated by individual bad actors and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Introduction -- The invisible threat -- Carceral feminism and the Violence Against Women Act -- Intimate damage -- Reproducing state violence -- Rape culture and the carceral capitalist police state -- Seizing the means of reproduction -- Against saviors -- The culture war -- Survivor justice -- Another world.
Subjects:
Women -- Violence against -- United States.
Women -- Crimes against -- United States.
Abused women -- United States.
Feminism -- United States.
Reproductive rights -- United States.
Women -- Violence against -- United States.
Women -- Crimes against -- United States.
Abused women -- United States.
Feminism -- United States.
Reproductive rights -- United States.
ISBN:
9781623179083
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
SOCIAL SCI Gender Women Che | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.