Women in Policing

Rezensionen / Stimmen

'This book is a must-read for police practitioners, academics, professional policing students and policing scholars. At a time when gender-responsive policing and security are gaining traction domestically and internationally, Emma Cunningham fills a void within the contemporary literature on women in policing, drawing upon contemporary research and using original data to shed light upon gender inequality, sexism, and misogyny in the everyday lives of female police officers in the UK and beyond. This book will serve as a wake-up call for policymakers, police leaders, and trainers.'

Dr Wendy Laverick, Programme Director Professional Policing, Hull University

'This book is a clear-sighted exploration of twenty-first-century policing and its impact on women. Emma Cunningham holds current events and practices up to the light of diverse historical sources, in a call to action that is urgent and constructive. She tackles the myth of women's "nature" via Mary Wollstonecraft's pioneering arguments on Justice and human rights, and in doing so delivers a powerful case for an intersectional approach to policing.

Cunningham was a long-term supporter of the Wollstonecraft memorial artwork, well before the controversy kicked in. Like that memorial, this book ensures that Wollstonecraft is, in Virgina Woolf's words, "alive and active [...] even now among the living".

With this feminist critique of police work in Britain and beyond, Cunningham draws on Wollstonecraft's key principles and takes them into action, which is exactly where they belong. I learnt a lot from this book and I am filled with hope that others will learn too.'

Bee Rowlatt, journalist, writer and activist. She chaired the Mary on the Green campaign to memorialise Mary Wollstonecraft and is a founding Trustee of the human rights education charity the Wollstonecraft Society