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OverviewRecent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, has given way to a violent surge that is worldwide in its scope, concentrated in places where the state’s traditional, sovereign functions have broken down. Femicide is no longer just an intimate event: it has become anonymous and systematic, a crime of power. An intensified form of capitalism, the product of a colonial modernity that is still with us, now fuels new wars on women, which destroy society while targeting women’s bodies. Understanding this new, violent turn within patriarchy—which Rita Segato considers the primal form of human domination—means moving patriarchy from the margins to the center of our social analysis. According to Segato, it is only by revitalizing community and repoliticizing domestic space that we can redirect history towards a different destiny. At stake is nothing less than the future of humanity. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rita Segato , Ramsey McGlazer , Jelke BoestensPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd Imprint: Polity Press ISBN: 9781509562121ISBN 10: 1509562125 Pages: 282 Publication Date: 22 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsForeword – Jelke Boestens Prologue to the Second Edition Introduction Theme One: The Centrality of the Question of Gender Theme Two: Patriarchal Pedagogy, Cruelty, and War Today Theme Three: What Hides the Role of Patriarchy as the Pillar that Sustains All Powers Theme Four: Toward Politics in a Feminine Key The Writing on the Bodies of Murdered Women in Ciudad Juárez: Territory, Sovereignty, and Crimes of the Second State Science and Life The Femicides in Ciudad Juárez: A Criminological Wager Epilogue Women’s Bodies and the New Forms of War Introduction The Informalization of Contemporary Military Norms Changes in the Territorial Paradigm Corresponding Changes in Political Culture, or The Factionalization of Politics The Mafialización of Politics and the State Capture of Crime Femigenocide: The Difficulty of Perceiving the Public Dimension of War Femicides Patriarchy, from Margin to Center: Discipline, Territoriality, and Cruelty in Capital’s Apocalyptic Phase The History of the Public Sphere is the History of Patriarchy Discipline and the Pedagogy of Cruelty: The Role of High-Intensity, Colonial Modern Patriarchy in the Historical Project of Capital in its Apocalyptic Phase History in Our Hands Coloniality and Modern Patriarchy Duality and Binarism: The “Egalitarian” Gender Relations of Colonial Modernity and Hierarchy in the Pre-Intrusion Social Order Femigenocide as a Crime Under International Human Rights Law The Struggle for Laws as a Discursive Conflict Disputes over Whether or Not to Name The Struggle to Elevate Femicide to the Legal Status of Genocide Against Women Conditions for Writing Femicide into State Law and Femigenocide into Human Rights Law Five Feminist Debates: Arguments for a Dissenting Reflection on Violence Against Women The Victimization of Women in War Unequal but Different On the Role We Assign to the State How Not to Ghettoize the Question of Gender Power’s New Eloquence: A Conversation with Rita Segato From Anti-Punitivist Feminism to Feminist Anti-Punitivism For an Anti-Punitivist Feminism: Two Wrongs Don’t Make a Right Presentation before the National Senate, April 20, 2017, at the Hearing Called to Assess a Proposal to Impose Harsher Punishments in Response to the Killing of Micaela García on April 1, 2017 For a Feminist Anti-Punitivism: “Femicide and the Limits of Legal Education” By Way of Conclusion: A Blueprint for Reading Gender Violence in Our Times Conceptual Framework: Gender Asymmetry and What Sustains ItThe Two Axes of Aggression and the Masculine Mandate Femicide and Femigenocide Two Legal Categories Awaiting Recognition in International Human Rights Law The Importance of a Transnational, Comparative Approach The Para-State, New Forms of War, and Femigenocide On the Need to De-Libidinize Sexual Aggression and to See Acts of Gender Aggression as Fully Public Crimes Expressive Violence: The Specificity of the Message, the Capacity for Cruelty, and Territorial Domination Expressive Violence: The Spectacle of Impunity A Watershed in the History of War The Masculine Mandate and the Reproduction of Military Labor Bibliography Notes IndexReviews“This excellent translation of Rita Segato’s War Against Women is a long-awaited contribution to feminism for English-language audiences. Her brilliance is indispensable and indisputable. She considers violence against women in historical forms, its domestic, public, military, and paramilitary forms, and in its relation to gratuitous cruelty and the formation of masculine subjects. Steeped in the history of violence against women in Latin America, Segato situates this history of violence in a transnational frame, showing the range of powers that seize upon women’s bodies with lethal aggression. That history moves in and out of national boundaries, focuses the analysis of femicide in relation to territory, property, and both state and non-state powers, all of whom mobilize specific and converging forms of violence. Segato shows us how to make the case against this horrific war on women in its legal, historical, and psychological dimensions. One can only feel grateful for this indomitable intellect and remarkable passion as it pursues and renews this political commitment to justice.” Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley Author InformationRita Segato is Emerit Professor at the University of Brasília and is the author of numerous books, including A Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays. She was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 and the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Salamanca. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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