Françoise Vergès 
A Feminist Theory of Violence [EPUB ebook] 
A Decolonial Perspective

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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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Table of Content

Introduction
1. Neoliberal Violence
2. Race, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Women’s Protection
3. Punitive Feminism, an Impasse
Conclusion – For a Decolonial Feminist Politics
Notes

About the author

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.

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Language French ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9780745345697 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Translator Melissa Thackway ● Publisher Pluto Press ● City London ● Country GB ● Published 2022 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 8360048 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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