The feminist and the sex offender Confronting harm, ending state violence
Book - 2020
In the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration, The Feminist and the Sex Offender makes a powerful feminist case for accountability without punishment and sexual safety and pleasure without injustice. With analytical clarity and narrative force, The Feminist and the Sex Offender contends with two problems that are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence, on the one hand, and the state's unjust, ineffective, and soul-destroying response to it on the other. Is it possible to confront the culture of abuse' Is it possible to hold harm-doers accountable without recourse to a criminal justice system that redoubles injuries, fails survivors, and retrenches the conditions that made such abuse ...possible' Drawing on interviews, extensive research, reportage, and history, The Feminist and the Sex Offender develops an intersectional feminist approach to ending sexual violence. It maps with considerable detail the unjust sex offender regime while highlighting the alternatives we urgently need. -- Provided by publisher.
- Subjects
- Genres
- Case studies
- Published
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London ; New York :
Verso
2020.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Other Authors
- Physical Description
- vi, 213 pages ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-208) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781788733403
- Introduction. One Problem, Two Faces:
- Sexual Harm and State Violence
- Convo: Systems and Individuals
- Part I. Feminists Confront Sexual Harm
- 1. Anti-violence Feminisms
- 2. Intersectionality
- Part II. State Violence: The Sex Offense Legal Regime
- 3. Protecting (White) Innocence
- 4. Punishment and "Management": The Sex Offender Registry
- 5. Policing Deviance: What Is a "Sex Offender"?
- 6. Medicalizing Violence
- 7. "Real" Guilt and the Trouble with Innocence
- Part III. Fractured Resistance
- Racial or Gender or Class Justice?
- 8. The "Registered Citizens'" Rights Movement
- 9. Religious Movements: Redemption, with Conditions
- 10. Men Face Masculinity
- Convo: What about White, Cisgender, Straight Man?
- 11. Women's Against the Regime
- 12. Restorative and Transformative Justice: Making the Road
- Convo: Whose Job Is Change?
- Part IV. Ten Ways to Confront Sexual Harm, End State Violence, and Transform Our Communities
- Reform or Radical Change?
- 1. Abolish the Sex Offender Registry and Civil Commitment
- 2. Demedicalize Sexual Violence
- 3. Decriminalize Child and Teen Sexuality
- 4. Invest in Radical and Free Sex Education
- 5. Complicate Consent
- 6. Eroticize Safety, Proliferate Pleasures
- 7. Build and Sustain a Robust Welfare State, Not a Carceral State
- 8. Think Intersectionally
- 9. Practice Restorative and Transformative Justice
- 10. Embrace Abolition Feminism
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index