Kristin Bumiller

In an Abusive State

How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Built on demanding scholarship, informed by collective feminist praxis, "In an Abusive State "engages the lives of women experiencing the personal trauma of and institutional responses to sexual violence. Committed, reflective, accessible, and challenging, Kristin Bumiller critically maps the structural relations of inequality and marginalization underpinning women's relationships to the authoritarian state and its regulatory institutions. Internationally significant, her excellent analysis exposes the policy deficits of restraint and criminalization and of attempting to affirm rights without addressing women's social, political, and economic exclusion."--Phil Scraton, Queen's University, Belfast, author of "Power, Conflict, and Criminalisation"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 149mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9780822342397
• ISBN-10: 0822342391
• Artikelnr.: 23390065

Autorenporträt

Kristin Bumiller

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Preface xi
1. The Sexual Violence Agenda: Feminists and the State 1
2. Gender War: The Cultural Representation of Sexual Violence 16
3. Expressive Justice: The Symbolic Function of the Gang Rape Trial 36
4. Administrative Injustice: The Growth of the Therapeutic State 63
5. Victim Insurgency: The State as a Dangerous Stranger 96
6. Universalizing Gender Justice: At Home and Abroad 132
Conclusion 155
Notes 167
Bibliography 189
Index 209