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In this landmark work, four of the world's leading
scholar-activists issue an urgent call 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. Abolition. Feminism. Now! 'This
extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I've ever seen
for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition' Robin D. G.
Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination
'Attentive to histories of organising that are too quickly erased,
and alive to new possibilities for working collectively in the
present time, this book is as capacious and demanding as the
abolitionist feminism it calls for' Sara Ahmed, author of Willful
Subjects
In this landmark work, four of the world's leading
scholar-activists issue an urgent call 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.
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. ABOLITION. FEMINISM. NOW. 'This
extraordinary book makes the most compelling case I've ever seen
for the indivisibility of feminism and abolition' Robin D. G.
Kelley 'This book is as capacious and demanding as the abolitionist
feminism it calls for' Sara Ahmed
Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a
movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who
think of abolition and feminism as separate-even
incompatible-political projects. In this remarkable collaborative
work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica
R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized
genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist,
grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles,
and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism
in the twenty-first century. This pathbreaking book also features
illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers
embodying abolitionist feminist practice. Amplifying the analysis
and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based
organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary
historical linkages, key internationalist learnings, and everyday
practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.
Abolition. Feminism. Now. is a celebration of freedom work, a
movement genealogy, a call to action, and a challenge to those who
think of abolition and feminism as separate-even
incompatible-political projects. In this remarkable collaborative
work, leading scholar-activists Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica
R. Meiners, and Beth E. Richie surface the often unrecognized
genealogies of queer, anti-capitalist, internationalist,
grassroots, and women-of-color-led feminist movements, struggles,
and organizations that have helped to define abolition and feminism
in the twenty-first century. This pathbreaking book also features
illustrations documenting the work of grassroots organizers
embodying abolitionist feminist practice. Amplifying the analysis
and the theories of change generated out of vibrant community based
organizing, Abolition. Feminism. Now. highlights necessary
historical linkages, key internationalist learnings, and everyday
practices to imagine a future where we can all thrive.
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