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Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? - Leah Cowan

Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?

A tangled history of resistance and complicity

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2024
Verso Books (Verlag)
978-1-80429-303-4 (ISBN)
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A tangled history of feminism's complicity and resistance
Every week it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behaviour by police officers. Yet these are the very people women are supposed to approach for help when faced with violence. And many feminists, hoping to use the criminal justice system to protect women, fight for stronger laws and longer sentences for those who harm them.

Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? traces the history of British feminism's alliances and struggles with the law and its enforcers. Drawing on the legacy of Black British feminism, Leah Cowan reminds us of the vibrant and creative alternatives envisioned by those who have long known the truth: the police aren't feminist, and the law does not keep women safe.

Leah Cowan is a writer and editor. She is the former Politics Editor at gal-dem, an online magazine and media platform run by women and non-binary people of colour. Leah also works at Project 17, an advice centre for migrant families who have No Recourse to Public Funds and are facing homelessness and destitution. Leah has written for publications including Vice UK, Huck, DOPE magazine, and the Guardian and in 2018 delivered a TEDxTalk presenting an intersectional analysis of emotional labour. Leah speaks and lectures, including for UN Women, in the House of Commons, at the Trades Union Congress, and at Queen Mary University of London. Her first book, BORDER NATION, breaking down the borders of migration, was published in 2021.

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?
1. False Histories in the Shadow of the Empire
2. A Symphony of Order and Chaos
3. The 'Sectorification' of Radical Struggle
4. Feminisms of Fear and Resistance in the New Millennium
5. Defund, Abolish, Now

Further Reading
Notes
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 210 mm
Gewicht 224 g
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern Allgemeines / Lexika
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Staat / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Gender Studies
ISBN-10 1-80429-303-2 / 1804293032
ISBN-13 978-1-80429-303-4 / 9781804293034
Zustand Neuware
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