The War Against Women
1st Edition
Published on 22. November 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-5095-6213-8 (ISBN)
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Recent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, has given way to a violent surge that is worldwide in its scope, concentrated in places where the state's traditional, sovereign functions have broken down. Femicide is no longer just an intimate event: it has become anonymous and systematic, a crime of power. An intensified form of capitalism, the product of a colonial modernity that is still with us, now fuels new wars on women, which destroy society while targeting women's bodies.
Understanding this new, violent turn within patriarchy-which Rita Segato considers the primal form of human domination-means moving patriarchy from the margins to the center of our social analysis. According to Segato, it is only by revitalizing community and repoliticizing domestic space that we can redirect history towards a different destiny. At stake is nothing less than the future of humanity.
Understanding this new, violent turn within patriarchy-which Rita Segato considers the primal form of human domination-means moving patriarchy from the margins to the center of our social analysis. According to Segato, it is only by revitalizing community and repoliticizing domestic space that we can redirect history towards a different destiny. At stake is nothing less than the future of humanity.
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"This excellent translation of Rita Segato's War Against Women is a long-awaited contribution to feminism for English-language audiences. Her brilliance is indispensable and indisputable. She considers violence against women in historical forms, its domestic, public, military, and paramilitary forms, and in its relation to gratuitous cruelty and the formation of masculine subjects. Steeped in the history of violence against women in Latin America, Segato situates this history of violence in a transnational frame, showing the range of powers that seize upon women's bodies with lethal aggression. That history moves in and out of national boundaries, focuses the analysis of femicide in relation to territory, property, and both state and non-state powers, all of whom mobilize specific and converging forms of violence. Segato shows us how to make the case against this horrific war on women in its legal, historical, and psychological dimensions. One can only feel grateful for this indomitable intellect and remarkable passion as it pursues and renews this political commitment to justice."Judith Butler, University of California, Berkeley
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English
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Oxford
United Kingdom
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 212 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
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328 gr
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978-1-5095-6213-8 (9781509562138)
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Rita Segato is Emerit Professor at the University of Brasilia and is the author of numerous books, including A Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays. She was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 and the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Salamanca.
Content
Foreword - Jelke Boestens
Prologue to the Second Edition
Introduction
Theme One: The Centrality of the Question of Gender
Theme Two: Patriarchal Pedagogy, Cruelty, and War Today
Theme Three: What Hides the Role of Patriarchy as the Pillar that Sustains All Powers
Theme Four: Toward Politics in a Feminine Key
The Writing on the Bodies of Murdered Women in Ciudad Juarez: Territory, Sovereignty, and Crimes of the Second State
Science and Life
The Femicides in Ciudad Juarez: A Criminological Wager
Epilogue
Women's Bodies and the New Forms of War
Introduction
The Informalization of Contemporary Military Norms
Changes in the Territorial Paradigm
Corresponding Changes in Political Culture, or The Factionalization of Politics
The Mafializacion of Politics and the State Capture of Crime
Femigenocide: The Difficulty of Perceiving the Public Dimension of War Femicides
Patriarchy, from Margin to Center: Discipline, Territoriality, and Cruelty in Capital's Apocalyptic Phase
The History of the Public Sphere is the History of Patriarchy
Discipline and the Pedagogy of Cruelty: The Role of High-Intensity, Colonial Modern Patriarchy in the Historical Project of Capital in its Apocalyptic Phase
History in Our Hands
Coloniality and Modern Patriarchy
Duality and Binarism: The "Egalitarian" Gender Relations of Colonial Modernity and Hierarchy in the Pre-Intrusion Social Order
Femigenocide as a Crime Under International Human Rights Law
The Struggle for Laws as a Discursive Conflict
Disputes over Whether or Not to Name
The Struggle to Elevate Femicide to the Legal Status of Genocide Against Women
Conditions for Writing Femicide into State Law and Femigenocide into Human Rights Law
Five Feminist Debates: Arguments for a Dissenting Reflection on Violence Against Women
The Victimization of Women in War
Unequal but Different
On the Role We Assign to the State
How Not to Ghettoize the Question of Gender
Power's New Eloquence: A Conversation with Rita Segato
From Anti-Punitivist Feminism to Feminist Anti-Punitivism
For an Anti-Punitivist Feminism: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right
Presentation before the National Senate, April 20, 2017, at the Hearing Called to Assess a Proposal to Impose Harsher Punishments in Response to the Killing of Micaela Garcia on April 1, 2017
For a Feminist Anti-Punitivism: "Femicide and the Limits of Legal Education"
By Way of Conclusion: A Blueprint for Reading Gender Violence in Our Times
Conceptual Framework: Gender Asymmetry and What Sustains ItThe Two Axes of Aggression and the Masculine Mandate
Femicide and Femigenocide
Two Legal Categories Awaiting Recognition in International Human Rights Law
The Importance of a Transnational, Comparative Approach
The Para-State, New Forms of War, and Femigenocide
On the Need to De-Libidinize Sexual Aggression and to See Acts of Gender Aggression as Fully Public Crimes
Expressive Violence: The Specificity of the Message, the Capacity for Cruelty, and Territorial Domination
Expressive Violence: The Spectacle of Impunity
A Watershed in the History of War
The Masculine Mandate and the Reproduction of Military Labor
Bibliography
Notes
Index
Prologue to the Second Edition
Introduction
Theme One: The Centrality of the Question of Gender
Theme Two: Patriarchal Pedagogy, Cruelty, and War Today
Theme Three: What Hides the Role of Patriarchy as the Pillar that Sustains All Powers
Theme Four: Toward Politics in a Feminine Key
The Writing on the Bodies of Murdered Women in Ciudad Juarez: Territory, Sovereignty, and Crimes of the Second State
Science and Life
The Femicides in Ciudad Juarez: A Criminological Wager
Epilogue
Women's Bodies and the New Forms of War
Introduction
The Informalization of Contemporary Military Norms
Changes in the Territorial Paradigm
Corresponding Changes in Political Culture, or The Factionalization of Politics
The Mafializacion of Politics and the State Capture of Crime
Femigenocide: The Difficulty of Perceiving the Public Dimension of War Femicides
Patriarchy, from Margin to Center: Discipline, Territoriality, and Cruelty in Capital's Apocalyptic Phase
The History of the Public Sphere is the History of Patriarchy
Discipline and the Pedagogy of Cruelty: The Role of High-Intensity, Colonial Modern Patriarchy in the Historical Project of Capital in its Apocalyptic Phase
History in Our Hands
Coloniality and Modern Patriarchy
Duality and Binarism: The "Egalitarian" Gender Relations of Colonial Modernity and Hierarchy in the Pre-Intrusion Social Order
Femigenocide as a Crime Under International Human Rights Law
The Struggle for Laws as a Discursive Conflict
Disputes over Whether or Not to Name
The Struggle to Elevate Femicide to the Legal Status of Genocide Against Women
Conditions for Writing Femicide into State Law and Femigenocide into Human Rights Law
Five Feminist Debates: Arguments for a Dissenting Reflection on Violence Against Women
The Victimization of Women in War
Unequal but Different
On the Role We Assign to the State
How Not to Ghettoize the Question of Gender
Power's New Eloquence: A Conversation with Rita Segato
From Anti-Punitivist Feminism to Feminist Anti-Punitivism
For an Anti-Punitivist Feminism: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right
Presentation before the National Senate, April 20, 2017, at the Hearing Called to Assess a Proposal to Impose Harsher Punishments in Response to the Killing of Micaela Garcia on April 1, 2017
For a Feminist Anti-Punitivism: "Femicide and the Limits of Legal Education"
By Way of Conclusion: A Blueprint for Reading Gender Violence in Our Times
Conceptual Framework: Gender Asymmetry and What Sustains ItThe Two Axes of Aggression and the Masculine Mandate
Femicide and Femigenocide
Two Legal Categories Awaiting Recognition in International Human Rights Law
The Importance of a Transnational, Comparative Approach
The Para-State, New Forms of War, and Femigenocide
On the Need to De-Libidinize Sexual Aggression and to See Acts of Gender Aggression as Fully Public Crimes
Expressive Violence: The Specificity of the Message, the Capacity for Cruelty, and Territorial Domination
Expressive Violence: The Spectacle of Impunity
A Watershed in the History of War
The Masculine Mandate and the Reproduction of Military Labor
Bibliography
Notes
Index