Françoise Vergès (writer), Ana Useros Martín (translator).
The official language on gender equality is a repertoire of violence: harassment, rape, abuse, femicide. These words designate a cruel reality, but do they not hide another reality, that of violence committed with the complicity of the State?
In this book, Françoise Vergès denounces the turn of security in the fight against sexism. By focusing on "violent men," the sources of this violence are not questioned. There is no doubt, racial capitalism, ultraconservative populism, the crushing of the South by wars and imperialist plunder, the millions of exiles or the prison escalation put masculinities at the service of a politics of death. Vergès urges us to reject the state's punitive obsession with restorative justice.
A decolonial and feminist understanding of violence has never been more obligatory than to...read more
