Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? (eBook)

A tangled history of resistance and complicity

Leah Cowan (Autor)

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2024 | Ebook UK & RoW
240 Seiten
Verso (Verlag)
978-1-80429-304-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.6.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Schlagworte: abolish the police • abolition revolution • acab • Angela Davis • aviah day • a woman is against the law • Black Feminism • Black Power • Brick By Brick • brixton black women's group • Civil Rights • cradle • Crime • Feminism • feminism for the 99% • feminist history • heart of the race • Lola Olufemi • Melissa Gira Grant • owaad • police abolition • policing • prison abolition • Reni Eddo-Lodge • Revolting Prostitutes • ruth Wilson Gilmore • shanice mcbean • speak out • Stella Dadzie • suffragettes
• ISBN-10: 1-80429-304-0 / 1804293040
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80429-304-1 / 9781804293041