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95/100Author:
Jacqueline Rose
Publisher:
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date:
May 18, 2021
A book of essays about violence against women from the feminist critic Jacqueline Rose.
What The Reviewers Say
She champions a 'scandalous feminism,' an embrace of all the shameful, derided aspects of our nature, a refusal to fear or shun our own thoughts. Without it, we will continue to outsource our anxieties and aggression onto other people, onto entire other populations (today’s chief targets, she argues, include mothers, migrants, trans people, Palestinians).
Rose addresses the prevalence and persistence of violence through the analytical lenses of feminism, history, psychoanalysis, politics, and literature. She argues that violence in our time thrives on a kind of mental blindness, and elucidates its relationship to the rise of politicians like Bolsonaro and Trump..
Rose probes the causes, meaning, and persistence of sexual violence in this thought-provoking essay collection.
A wide-ranging investigation of gender, power, and abuse.
