"In an Abusive State" puts forth a powerful argument that the feminist campaign to address sexual violence has evolved into a problematic alliance with the neo-liberal state. Kristin Bumiller chronicles this evolution by examining the history of that campaign, the production of cultural images about sexual violence, professional discourses on intimate violence, and the everyday lives of battered women. She also scrutinizes the rhetoric of high-profile rape trials and the expansion of feminist concerns about sexual violence into the international human-rights arena. In the process, Bumiller reveals how the feminist fight against sexual violence has been shaped over recent decades by dramatic shifts in welfare policies, incarceration rates, and the surveillance role of social-service bureaucracies.Drawing on archival research, individual case studies, testimonies of rape victims, and interviews with battered women, Bumiller raises fundamental concerns about the construction of sexual violence as a social problem. She describes how placing the issue of sexual violence on the public agenda has polarized gender- and race-based interests.She contends that as the social welfare state has intensified regulation and control the availability of services for battered women and rape victims has become increasingly linked to their status as victims and their ability to recognize their problems in medical and psychological terms. Bumiller suggests that to counteract these tendencies, sexual violence should primarily be addressed in the context of communities and in terms of its links to social disadvantage. "In an Abusive State" is an impassioned call for feminists to reflect on how the co-opting of their movement by the neo-liberal state creates the potential to inadvertently harm impoverished women and support punitive and racially based crime control efforts.
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書總體來說很critical,我也贊同作者認為的feminist movement against sexual violence帶來的state control。在律師們逼問victims時我感動陣陣惡心。我也喜歡作者對human rights agenda的解構。我自己嚮來不喜歡這樣一個overarching framework。但,我隱隱覺得作者在關注state control時有些偏頗,也許應該做一些基層工作者的ethnographical work?
評分書總體來說很critical,我也贊同作者認為的feminist movement against sexual violence帶來的state control。在律師們逼問victims時我感動陣陣惡心。我也喜歡作者對human rights agenda的解構。我自己嚮來不喜歡這樣一個overarching framework。但,我隱隱覺得作者在關注state control時有些偏頗,也許應該做一些基層工作者的ethnographical work?
評分書總體來說很critical,我也贊同作者認為的feminist movement against sexual violence帶來的state control。在律師們逼問victims時我感動陣陣惡心。我也喜歡作者對human rights agenda的解構。我自己嚮來不喜歡這樣一個overarching framework。但,我隱隱覺得作者在關注state control時有些偏頗,也許應該做一些基層工作者的ethnographical work?
評分書總體來說很critical,我也贊同作者認為的feminist movement against sexual violence帶來的state control。在律師們逼問victims時我感動陣陣惡心。我也喜歡作者對human rights agenda的解構。我自己嚮來不喜歡這樣一個overarching framework。但,我隱隱覺得作者在關注state control時有些偏頗,也許應該做一些基層工作者的ethnographical work?
評分書總體來說很critical,我也贊同作者認為的feminist movement against sexual violence帶來的state control。在律師們逼問victims時我感動陣陣惡心。我也喜歡作者對human rights agenda的解構。我自己嚮來不喜歡這樣一個overarching framework。但,我隱隱覺得作者在關注state control時有些偏頗,也許應該做一些基層工作者的ethnographical work?
In an Abusive State 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載