num_pages: 423
description: A blazingly insightful provocative study of violence against women from the peerless feminist critic.Why has violence and especially violence against women become so much more prominent and visible across the world? To explore this question Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of todays violence  historic and intimate public and private  as they spread throughout our social fabric offering a new provocative account of violence in our time.From trans rights and #MeToo to the sexual harassment of migrant women from the trial of Oscar Pistorius to domestic violence in lockdown from the writing of Roxanne Gay to Hisham Mitar and Han Kang she casts her net wide. What obscene pleasure in violence do so many male leaders of the Western world unleash in their supporters? Is violence always gendered and if so always in the same way? What is required of the human mind when it grants itself permission to do violence?On Violence and On Violence Against Women is a timely and urgent agitation against injustice a challenge to radical feminism and a meaningful call to action.
language: English
title: On Violence and On Violence Against Women
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux