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Zusatztext Two-thirds of U S gun deaths are suicides. We know! too! as Joan Smith has documented brilliantly in her book ... that a lot of these shooters have a history of terrorising the women in their lives. Informationen zum Autor Joan Smith is a novelist, columnist and campaigner for human rights. She is the author of the feminist classic Misogynies and the Loretta Lawson crime series, and writes for the Guardian , Telegraph , Sunday Times and New York Times , among others. Since 2013 she has been co-chair of the Mayor of London's Violence Against Women and Girls Board. She lives in London. Klappentext An urgent manifesto revealing the link between domestic violence and terrorism by seasoned journalist and human rights campaigner Zusammenfassung What do the attacks in London Bridge! Manchester and Westminster have in common with those at the Charlie Hebdo offices! the Finsbury Park Mosque attack and multiple US shootings? They were all carried out by men with histories of domestic violence. 'Revelation' Sunday Times: Best Book of 2019 'Achieves the rare feat of saying something new' John Bew 'Powerfully written' The Times TERRORISM BEGINS AT HOME. Terrorism is seen as a special category of crime that has blinded us to the obvious - that it is! almost always! male violence. The extraordinary link between so many tragic recent attacks is that the perpetrators have practised in private before their public outbursts. In these searing case studies! Joan Smith! feminist and human rights campaigner! makes a compelling and persuasive argument for a radical shift in perspective. Incomprehensible ideology is transformed through her clear-eyed research into a disturbing but familiar pattern. From the Manchester bomber to the Charlie Hebdo attackers! from angry white men to the Bethnal Green girls! from US school shootings to the London gang members who joined ISIS! Joan Smith shows that! time and time again! misogyny! trauma and abuse lurk beneath the 'justifications' of religion or politics. Until Smith pointed it out in 2017! criminal authorities missed this connection because violence against women is dangerously normalised. Yet! since domestic abuse often comes before a public attack! it's here a solution to the scourge of our age might be found. Thought-provoking and essential! Home-Grown will lift the veil on a revelatory truth. For fans of Invisible Women by Caroline Criado-Perez and Misogynation by Laura Bates. ...
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A chilling indictment and an urgent call to action. Joan Smith's meticulous, shocking book offers irrefutable evidence that many men who commit public atrocities have already practised their terrorism at home. Powerful . . . Smith proves again and again that this refusal to accept the evidence and recognise what domestic violence actually means as a force within society, also means that we are vulnerable to other types of male violence, including suicide bombings, terrorist attacks and mass shootings Susan McKay Irish Times
