Abolition. Feminism. Now.

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Synopsis

In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists issue an urgent call for a truly intersectional, internationalist, abolitionist feminism.As a politics and as a practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment, amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of George Floyd by a uniformed police officer. It is at the heart of the Black Lives Matter movement, in its demands for police defunding and demilitarisation, and a halt to prison construction. And it is there in the outrage which greeted the brutal treatment of women by police at the 2021 Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard.As this book shows, abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in fighting a common cause: the end of the carceral state, with its key role in perpetuating violence, both public and private, in prisons, in police forces, and in people's homes. Abolitionist theories and practices are at their most compelling when they are feminist; and a feminism that is also abolitionist is the most inclusive and persuasive version of feminism for these times.Abolition. Feminism. Now!'This extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I've ever seen for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition' Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination'Attentive to histories of organising that are too quickly erased, and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the present time, this book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist feminism it calls for' Sara Ahmed, author of Willful Subjects

Book details

Author:
Angela Y. Davis, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie, Gina Dent
ISBN:
9780241543764
Related ISBNs:
9780241543757, 9780241543740, 9780241994726
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Pages:
250
Reading age:
Not specified
Includes images:
Yes
Date of addition:
2022-12-08
Usage restrictions:
Copyright
Copyright date:
2022
Copyright by:
Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners and Beth E. Richie 
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Categories:
Nonfiction, Politics and Government, Social Studies