In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence

"Built on demanding scholarship, informed by collective feminist praxis,In an Abusive Stateengages the lives of women experiencing the personal trauma of and institutional responses to sexual violence. Committed, reflective, accessible, and challenging, Kristin Bumiller critically maps the structural relations of inequality and marginalization underpinning women's relationships to the authoritarian state and its regulatory institutions. Internationally significant, her excellent analysis exposes the policy deficits of restraint and criminalization and of attempting to affirm rights without addressing women's social, political, and economic exclusion."-Phil Scraton, Queen's University, Belfast, author ofPower, Conflict, and CriminalisationKristin Bumiller is the author of 'In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence', published 2008 under ISBN 9780822342205 and ISBN 0822342200.