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

Fue catedrática de la Universidad de California, Santa Cruz, en el Departamento de Estudios Afroamericanos y Feministas entre 1994 y 1997. Profesora vitalicia en el Departamento de Historia de la Conciencia de dicha universidad, ha sido miembro del Partido Comunista estadounidense desde 1968 y participó activamente en los movimientos que sacudieron Estados Unidos durante las décadas de 1960 y 1970. Entre sus libros cabe destacar "Are Prisons Obsolete?" (2003), "Blues legacies and Black Feminism" (1998), "Women, Culture x{0026} Politics" (1988) y "Angela Davis: An Autobiography" (1975).