War Against Women

"Recent decades of neoliberal rule have seen authoritarian turns in many governments, and these decades have also been marked by increasing violence against women. The systematic killing of women in Ciudad Juâarez, Mexico, has given way to a violent surge that is worldwide in its scope, concentrated in places where the state's traditional, sovereign functions have broken down. Femicide is no longer just an intimate event: it has become anonymous and systematic, a crime of power. An intensified form of capitalism, the product of a colonial modernity that is still with us, now fuels new wars on women, which destroy society while targeting women's bodies. Understanding this new, violent turn within patriarchy-which Rita Segato considers the primal form of human domination-means moving patriarchy from the margins to the center of our social analysis. According to Segato, it is only by revitalizing community and repoliticizing domestic space that we can redirect history towards a different destiny. At stake is nothing less than the future of humanity"-- Provided by publisher.

List of contents

Foreword - Jelke Boestens
Prologue to the Second Edition

    
Introduction  
Theme One: The Centrality of the Question of Gender   
Theme Two: Patriarchal Pedagogy, Cruelty, and War Today    
Theme Three: What Hides the Role of Patriarchy as the Pillar that Sustains All Powers   
Theme Four: Toward Politics in a Feminine Key

The Writing on the Bodies of Murdered Women in Ciudad Juárez: Territory, Sovereignty, and Crimes of the Second State    
Science and Life   
The Femicides in Ciudad Juárez: A Criminological Wager
Epilogue
  

Women's Bodies and the New Forms of War
Introduction  
The Informalization of Contemporary Military Norms    
Changes in the Territorial Paradigm    
Corresponding Changes in Political Culture, or The Factionalization of Politics
The Mafialización of Politics and the State Capture of Crime    
Femigenocide: The Difficulty of Perceiving the Public Dimension of War Femicides   

Patriarchy, from Margin to Center: Discipline, Territoriality, and Cruelty in Capital's Apocalyptic Phase    
The History of the Public Sphere is the History of Patriarchy    
Discipline and the Pedagogy of Cruelty: The Role of High-Intensity, Colonial Modern Patriarchy in the Historical Project of Capital in its Apocalyptic Phase
History in Our Hands

    
Coloniality and Modern Patriarchy 
Duality and Binarism: The "Egalitarian" Gender Relations of Colonial Modernity and Hierarchy in the Pre-Intrusion Social Order

    
Femigenocide as a Crime Under International Human Rights Law 
The Struggle for Laws as a Discursive Conflict   
Disputes over Whether or Not to Name   
The Struggle to Elevate Femicide to the Legal Status of Genocide Against Women
Conditions for Writing Femicide into State Law and Femigenocide into Human Rights Law

Five Feminist Debates: Arguments for a Dissenting Reflection on Violence Against Women   
The Victimization of Women in War 
Unequal but Different   
On the Role We Assign to the State
How Not to Ghettoize the Question of Gender 

Power's New Eloquence: A Conversation with Rita Segato    

From Anti-Punitivist Feminism to Feminist Anti-Punitivism    
For an Anti-Punitivist Feminism: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right

Presentation before the National Senate, April 20, 2017, at the Hearing Called to Assess a Proposal to Impose Harsher Punishments in Response to the Killing of Micaela García on April 1, 2017 
For a Feminist Anti-Punitivism: "Femicide and the Limits of Legal Education"
By Way of Conclusion: A Blueprint for Reading Gender Violence in Our Times
    

Conceptual Framework: Gender Asymmetry and What Sustains ItThe Two Axes of Aggression and the Masculine Mandate
Femicide and Femigenocide    
Two Legal Categories Awaiting Recognition in International Human Rights Law    
The Importance of a Transnational, Comparative Approach    
The Para-State, New Forms of War, and Femigenocide    
On the Need to De-Libidinize Sexual Aggression and to See Acts of Gender Aggression as Fully Public Crimes 
Expressive Violence: The Specificity of the Message, the Capacity for Cruelty, and Territorial Domination 
Expressive Violence: The Spectacle of Impunity   
A Watershed in the History of War 
The Masculine Mandate and the Reproduction of Military Labor    

Bibliography
Notes
Index

About the author

Rita Segato is Emerit Professor at the University of Brasília and is the author of numerous books, including A Critique of Coloniality: Eight Essays.  She was awarded the Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021 and the Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Salamanca.

Product details

• Authors: Rita Segato
• Assisted by: Jelke Boestens (Foreword), Ramsey McGlazer (Translation)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.11.2024
• EAN: 9781509562121
• ISBN: 978-1-5095-6212-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Critical South
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Sociology & anthropology, Gender studies: women and girls