Survivor injustice : state-sanctioned abuse, domestic violence, and the fight for bodily autonomy / Kylie Cheung.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cheung, Kylie, 1998- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Violence against--United States.

Women--Crimes against--United States.

Abused women--United States.

Feminism--United States.

Reproductive rights--United States.

Abused women.

Feminism.

Reproductive rights.

Women--Crimes against.

Women--Violence against.

United States.

Physical Description:

296 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : North Atlantic Books, [2023]

Summary:

Cheung's book shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a "private matter" perpetrated by individual bad actors. She believes that domestic abuse and state violence are systemic and interconnected. Here she situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics. When state and society criminalize women, girls, and gender-oppressed people of color, while putting predators-- from every party-- up for vote, it is necessary to organize and make changes in the systems that perpetuate this behavior. -- adapted from back cover

Contents:

Introduction

The invisible threat

Carceral feminism and the Violence Against Women Act

Intimate damage

Reproducing state violence

Rape culture and the carceral capitalist police state

Seizing the means of reproduction

Against saviors

The culture war

Survivor justice

Another world.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cheung, Kylie, 1988- Survivor injustice.

ISBN:

9781623179083

1623179084

OCLC:

1354648527

Publisher Number:

99996554997