On Violence and On Violence Against Women

Author: Jacqueline Rose
ISBN: 9780374284213

A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.Why has violence, and especially violence against women, become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today’s violence – historic and intimate, public and private – as they spread throughout our social fabric, offering a new, provocative account of violence in our time.From trans rights and #MeToo to the sexual harassment of migrant women, from the trial of Oscar Pistorius to domestic violence in lockdown, from the writing of Roxanne Gay to Hisham Mitar and Han Kang, she casts her net wide. What obscene pleasure in violence do so many male leaders of the Western world unleash in their supporters? Is violence always gendered and if so, always in the same way? What is required of the human mind when it grants itself permission to do violence?On Violence and On Violence Against Women is a timely an

Publisher: Picador
Publish Date: 2022-05-17

Subjects: Political Science / Public Policy / Social Services & Welfare, Social Science / Women's Studies, Social Science / Violence in Society

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Rape/Sexual Assault)