In this landmark work, four of the world's leading scholar-activists set
out a vital, urgent manifesto for a truly intersectional,
internationalist, abolitionist feminism. As a politics and as a
practice, abolitionism has increasingly shaped our political moment,
amplified through the worldwide protests following the 2020 murder of
George Floyd by a uniformed police officer. It is at the heart of the
Black Lives Matter movement, in its demands for police defunding and
demilitarisation, and a halt to prison construction.
And it is
there in the outrage which greeted the brutal treatment of women by
police at the 2021 Clapham Common vigil for Sarah Everard. As this
book shows, abolitionism and feminism stand shoulder-to-shoulder in
fighting a common cause: the end of the carceral state, with its key
role in perpetuating violence, both public and private, in prisons, in
police forces, and in people's homes. Abolitionist theories and
practices are at their most compelling when they are feminist; and a
feminism that is also abolitionist is the most inclusive and persuasive
version of feminism for these times.
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Abolition. Feminism. Now. - Angela Davis, Erica Meiners, Beth Richie & Gina Dent
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