A Feminist Theory of Violence

The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti-racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety

Françoise Vergès is a political scientist, activist, historian, film writer, and public educator. She is the author of A Decolonial Feminism, A Feminist History of Violence and A Programme of Absolute Disorder. She is also a senior research fellow at the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the Study of Racism and Racialisation, University College London. She lives in Paris.

Introduction
1. Neoliberal Violence
2. Race, Patriarchy, and the Politics of Women's Protection
3. Punitive Feminism, an Impasse
Conclusion - For a Decolonial Feminist Politics
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