Description
| Product ID: | 9781623179083 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Survivor Injustice |
| Subtitle: | State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy |
| Authors: | Author: Kylie Cheung |
| Page Count: | 352 |
| Subjects: | Society and culture: general, Society & culture: general |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung exposes the insidious--and often unseen--connections among domestic abuse, state-based violence, political disenfranchisement, and the carceral state. "An astonishingly original, powerfully honest vision for true survivor justice." —Kirkus, starred review For readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad. Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times, Survivor Injustice is the feminist frame-changing read we need now--for each of us, and for all that’s at stake. With an abolitionist lens, journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung shows how domestic abuse and state violence are systemic and interconnected. She shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a “private matter” perpetrated by individual bad actors--and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics. Cheung explores:
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| Imprint Name: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Publisher Name: | North Atlantic Books,U.S. |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-08-15 |
