Insurgent Love
Abolition and Domestic Homicide
$36.79
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
20 November 2021
Summary
Domestic homicide involves violence at the most intimate level – the partner or family relationship. The most common strategy for addressing this kind of transgression relies on policing and prisons. But through examining commonly accepted typologies of intimate partner violence, Ardath Whynacht shows that policing can be understood as part of the same root problem as the violence it seeks to mend. This book illustrates that the origins of both the carceral state and toxic masculinity are sit…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781773634838 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1773634836 |
| Author: | Ardath Whynacht |
| Publisher: | Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd |
| Imprint: | Fernwood Publishing Co Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 20 November 2021 |
| Weight: | 227g |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 15mm x 23mm |
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Critics Review
“As a Black feminist organizing against gender-based violence, this book is of profound importance because it argues for an alternate path to eradicating domestic homicide and violence. Carceral feminism has failed us; the police can’t protect us. As an abolitionist committed to ending all forms of violence, as a survivor of domestic and family violence, how do we move towards transformative approaches that center healing for ALL our communities? This book is an opportunity to start engaging in these important conversations.”
– Marlihan Lopez, co-vice-president for la Fédération des femmes du Québec and program and outreach co-ordinator at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute.“What is most significant about this book is the author’s engagement with intimate violence and abolition. Generally, there is a tendency in the field of abolition to glaze over intimate and other personal violences or to focus almost exclusively on state violence at the expense of the other. Establishing links between state and intimate violence is an important framework for abolitionist and anti-violence work as a way to engage these kinds of brutalizing hardships, and without drawing on ongoing carceral legacies and colonial logics.”
– Vicki Chartrand, associate professor and director of Centre for Justice ExchangeArdath Whynacht
Ardath Whynacht (she/her) is a queer feminist who writes and researches about mental health and violence. She has worked as a counsellor and advocate for family violence response and prevention for more than two decades and with incarcerated people in the Federal prison system since 2008, with a focus on supporting women in maximum security and men serving life sentences for homicide.
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