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In an Abusive State

How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence

By: Kristin Bumiller

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In an Abusive State

How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence

By: Kristin Bumiller

In an Abusive State puts forth a powerful argument: that the feminist campaign to stop sexual violence has entered into a problematic alliance with the neoliberal state. Kristin Bumiller chronicles the evolution of this alliance by examining the history of the anti-violence 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-optation of their movement by the neoliberal state creates the potential to inadvertently harm impoverished women and support punitive and racially based crime control efforts.

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Duke University Press

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0822342391

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In an Abusive State

How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence

By: Kristin Bumiller

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How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence

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Duke University Press

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The Civil Rights Society

The Social Construction of Victims

By: Kristin Bumiller

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The Civil Rights Society

The Social Construction of Victims

By: Kristin Bumiller

Grounded in a wide reading of social theory and supported with interview data, The Civil Rights Society reveals an important dimension of the failure of legal action to address many of the most persistent forms of racial and sexual oppression.

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JHU Press

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0801845106

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9780801845109

Understanding Criminal Justice

Sociological Perspectives

By: Philip Smith,Kristin Natalier

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Understanding Criminal Justice

Sociological Perspectives

By: Philip Smith,Kristin Natalier

Providing an overview of the sociological approaches to law and criminal justice, this book focuses on how law and the criminal justice system inevitably affect one another, and the ways in which both are intimately connected with wider social forces.

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SAGE

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0761940324

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9780761940326

Carried to the Wall

American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

By: Kristin Ann Hass

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Carried to the Wall

American Memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

By: Kristin Ann Hass

On May 9, 1990, a bottle of Jack Daniels, a ring with letter, a Purple Heart and Bronze Star, a baseball, a photo album, an ace of spades, and a pie were some of the objects left at the Vietnam Veterans War Memorial. For Kristin Hass, this eclectic sampling represents an attempt by ordinary Americans to come to terms with a multitude of unnamed losses as well as to take part in the ongoing debate of how this war should be remembered. Hass explores the restless memory of the Vietnam War and an American public still grappling with its commemoration. In doing so it considers the ways Americans have struggled to renegotiate the meanings of national identity, patriotism, community, and the place of the soldier, in the aftermath of a war that ruptured the ways in which all of these things have been traditionally defined. Hass contextualizes her study of this phenomenon within the history of American funerary traditions (in particular non-Anglo traditions in which material offerings are common), the history of war memorials, and the changing symbolic meaning of war. Her evocative analysis of the site itself illustrates and enriches her larger theses regarding the creation of public memory and the problem of remembering war and the resulting causalities—in this case not only 58,000 soldiers, but also conceptions of masculinity, patriotism, and working-class pride and idealism.

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Univ of California Press

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0520920708

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9780520920705

Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy

By: Kristin Anne Kelly

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Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy

By: Kristin Anne Kelly

Argues that understanding resistance to countermeasures against domestic violence requires recognizing the tension within liberalism between preserving the privacy of the family and protecting vulnerable individuals. [back cover].

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Cornell University Press

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080148829X

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9780801488290

The Civil Rights Society

The Social Construction of Victims

By: Kristin Bumiller

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The Social Construction of Victims

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In an Abusive State

In an Abusive State

In an Abusive State

In an Abusive State

The Civil Rights Society

The Civil Rights Society

Understanding Criminal Justice

Understanding Criminal Justice

Carried to the Wall

Carried to the Wall

Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy

Domestic Violence and the Politics of Privacy

The Civil Rights Society

The Civil Rights Society

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