Feminist Responses to Injustices of the State and Its Institutions: Politics, Intervention, Resistance

From the denial of abortion rights in Ireland to sexual violence against British South Asian women in England, the state and its institutions continue to fail women. This book offers a counter-narrative to contemporary injustices and a persistent culture of victim-blaming. The academic and activist contributions to this collection explore contemporary research areas and pursue new discursive directions in order to present a feminist criminology, built on feminist praxis, for the 21st century. Providing a direct challenge to regressive and ineffective theory, policy and practice, this book resists the politics of gendered victimization through extending feminist analyses of the state and documenting interventions into contemporary injustices.

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.