Feminist Responses to Injustices of the State and its Institutions (eBook)

Kym Atkinson is Lecturer in Criminology and Human Rights at Sheffield Hallam University. Úna Barr is Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University. Helen Monk is Lecturer in Criminology at Liverpool John Moores University. Katie Tucker is Associate Lecturer at the Open University.

Part I: Feminist Epistemology
1. Introduction: Denying Oppression a Future – Gender, the State and Feminist Praxis – Kym Atkinson, Úna 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 – Úna 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