"A blazingly insightful, provocative book of essays about violence against women from the peerless feminist critic Jacqueline Rose"--
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ISBN:9780374284213
ISBN:0374284210
Physical Description:423 pages ; 22 cm.
Edition:First American.
Publisher:New York :Farrar, Straus and Giroux,2021.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Introduction: on violence and on violence against women -- I am a knife: sexual harassment in close-up -- Trans voices: Who do you think you are? -- Trans and sexual harassment- the back story -- Feminism and the abomination of violence -- Writing violence - from modernism to Eimear McBride -- The killing of Reeva Steenkamp, the trial of Oscar Pistorius - sex and race in the courtroom -- Political protest and the denial of history - South Africa and the legacy of the future -- One long scream - trauma and justice in South Africa -- At the border.