{"product_id":"in-an-abusive-state-9780822342397","title":"In an Abusive State","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA powerful argument that the feminist campaign to address sexual violence has evolved into a problematic alliance with the neoliberal state.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eIn an Abusive State\u003c\/i\u003e provides a needed and instructive retrospective of the violence against women movement. Kristin Bumiller brings into focus the uneasy alliance between feminists and the state by looking critically at the official conduct of rape trials and domestic assault cases, as well as the routine surveillance of women considered ‘dependent.’ Using extensive empirical analysis, she exposes the limitations of strategies that attempt to incorporate feminist practices within mainstream institutions. This important and timely book will set the agenda for a new era of feminist activism—one that begins with the realization that mounting fundamental challenges to systems of social control means working outside of the existing institutional structures of the state.”—\u003cb\u003eMartha Albertson Fineman\u003c\/b\u003e, Robert W. Woodruff Professor of Law, Emory University\u003cbr\u003e“Built on demanding scholarship, informed by collective feminist praxis, \u003ci\u003eIn an Abusive State \u003c\/i\u003eengages 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.”—\u003cb\u003ePhil Scraton\u003c\/b\u003e, Queen’s University, Belfast, author of \u003ci\u003ePower, Conflict, and Criminalisation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kristin Bumiller describes a sane, intelligent path through the cyclical race and gender passion plays that have spun out—and spun out of control—on the national media stage. From the Central Park Jogger case to O. J. Simpson, Bumiller is never polemical. This book provides much-needed perspective as she details the conscious and unconscious ingredients in how such polarization is choreographed, and how boundaries are subtly but intransigently marked.”—\u003cb\u003ePatricia J. Williams\u003c\/b\u003e, James L. Dohr Professor of Law, Columbia University, and columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Preface xi\u003cbr\u003e 1. The Sexual Violence Agenda: Feminists and the State 1\u003cbr\u003e 2. Gender War: The Cultural Representation of Sexual Violence 16\u003cbr\u003e 3. Expressive Justice: The Symbolic Function of the Gang Rape Trial 36\u003cbr\u003e 4. Administrative Injustice: The Growth of the Therapeutic State 63\u003cbr\u003e 5. Victim Insurgency: The State as a Dangerous Stranger 96\u003cbr\u003e 6. Universalizing Gender Justice: At Home and Abroad 132\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 155\u003cbr\u003e Notes 167\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 189\u003cbr\u003e Index 209","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48866011709783,"sku":"9780822342397","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822342397.jpg?v=1722276616","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-an-abusive-state-9780822342397","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}