Feminist Responses to Injustices of the State and its Institutions

Part I: Feminist Epistemology


1. Introduction: Denying Oppression a Future - Gender, the State and Feminist Praxis - Kym Atkinson, Una Barr and Helen Monk


2. Denying Violence Against Women a Future: Feminist Epistemology and the Struggle for Social Justice - Anette Ballinger


Part II: State Practice and Feminist Praxis


3. State (In)action and Feminist Resistance to the Denial of Abortion Rights in Northern Ireland - Maev McDaid and Brian Christopher Nelis


4. At the Limits of 'Acceptable' Speech: A Feminist Analysis of Official Discourse on Child Sexual Abuse - Katie Tucker


5. Universities, Sexual Violence and the Institutional Operation of Power - Kym Atkinson


6. Gender, Policing and Social Order: Restating the Case for a Feminist Analysis of Policing - Will Jackson and Helen Monk


7. Sanctuary as Social Justice: A Feminist Critique - Victoria Canning


Part III: The Criminal Justice System and Feminist Praxis


8. Constructing a Feminist Desistance: Resisting Responsibilization - Una Barr and Emily Luise Hart


9. Improving Police Responses to Sexual Abuse Offences Against British South Asian Women - Aisha K. Gill


10. Traumatizing the Traumatized: Self-Harm and Death in Women's Prisons in England and Wales - Kym Atkinson, Helen Monk and Joe Sim


11. Sensing Injustice? Defences to Murder - Adrian Howe


12. An Anti-Carceral Feminist Response to Youth Justice Involved Girls - Jodie Hodgson


Afterword - Pragna Patel