Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Resumen del libro

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

Biografía del autor

Angela Yvonne Davis (1944) nació en Birmingham, Alabama. Después de graduarse x{0026}lt;i magna cum laudex{0026}lt;/i en la Universidad Brandeis, cursó estudios de Filosofía en la Universidad Goethe de Frankfurt y se doctoró en la Universidad de California en San Diego. Tras quedar absuelta en 1972 de los cargos que pesaban contra ella y que la habían conducido a prisión, ha consagrado su vida a una incansable labor como escritora, ensayista, conferenciante y defensora de los derechos humanos, méritos que le han valido de manera unánime el reconocimiento internacional. Fue candidata a la vicepresidencia de Estados Unidos por el Partido Comunista en las elecciones de 1980 y 1984. Entre sus obras más célebres se encuentran x{0026}lt;i Mujeres, raza y clase,x{0026}lt;/i x{0026}lt;i La libertad es una batalla constantex{0026}lt;/i y x{0026}lt;i Democracia de la abolición.x{0026}lt;/i