This paper uses a materialist feminist discourse analysis to examine how women's
movement organizations, liberal Democrats, and conservative Republican legislators …

This article draws upon recent works in sociology, jurisprudence, and feminist theory in
order to assess the ways in which feminism, and sex and gender more generally, have …

How is political violence gendered? We connect the traditional political violence literature's
emphasis on categorizing attacks to the gender and politics literature's analysis of the …

This paper is a consideration of the increasing diversity of images of gender violence and its
victims, as both the grassroots antiviolence activists, and the scholars of the movements and …

Racial injustice at the intersections of interpersonal and state violence sets the stage for this
examination of mainstream responses to domestic and sexual violence. At one end of this …

Cherie Williams, a thirty-five-year-old African-American woman in the Bronx, just wanted to
protect herself from her abusive boyfriend. So she called the cops. But although New York …

The movements for racial justice, health equity, and economic relief have been activated in
the contentious and challenging climate of 2020, with COVID-19 and social protest. In this …

During the 1970s, grassroots women activists in and outside of prisons forged a radical
politics against gender violence and incarceration. Emily L. Thuma traces the making of this …

The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is the signature federal legislative
accomplishment of the anti-violence movement and has ensured that criminalization is the …

To woefully use a cliché:'We've come a long way baby.'Twelve years ago what literature
existed on women's involvement in political and criminal violences denied or seriously …