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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

On Violence and On Violence Against Women

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      Publisher: Picador USA
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/05/2022
      ISBN13: 9781250849373, 978-1250849373
      ISBN10: 1250849373
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      Gender studies: women and girls Social welfare, social policy and social services Violence and abuse in society

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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

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