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Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?
A tangled history of resistance and complicity
Brief Description
The abduction and murder of Sarah Everard by London Met officer Wayne Couzens, and the sharing of photos of the bodies of murdered sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry by constables, revealed something rotten about policing in Britain. Every week, it seems there is a fresh...
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Why Would Feminists Trust the Police?
A tangled history of feminism's complicity and resistance
How did feminists end up turning to the police and the law to make them safe?
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The abduction and murder of Sarah Everard by London Met officer Wayne Couzens, and the sharing of photos of the bodies of murdered sisters Nicole Smallman and Bibaa Henry by constables, revealed something rotten about policing in Britain. Every week, it seems there is a fresh scandal involving abhorrent, racist, misogynist behaviour by serving officers. Yet, these are the very people that women are supposed to seek help from when they face violence. Many feminists continue to hope that the criminal justice system can be used to make women safe, fighting for stronger laws and longer sentences for those who harm them.
Why Would Feminists Trust the Police? traces the history of British feminism's alliances and struggles with the law and its enforcers, to ask: how did feminists come to rely on the police to make them safe? And how can we change course? Drawing on the history of Black British feminism and police and prison abolition, Leah Cowan issues a corrective: the police are not feminists, and they will not bring us safety.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781804293034
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 11 June 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Verso Books
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 210.0mm
Weight: 224g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Leah Cowan is a writer and editor. She is the former Politics Editor at gal-dem, an online magazine and media platform run by women and non-binary people of colour. Leah also works at Project 17, an advice centre for migrant families who have No Recourse to Public Funds and are facing homelessness and destitution. Leah has written for publications including Vice UK, Huck, DOPE magazine, and the Guardian and in 2018 delivered a TEDxTalk presenting an intersectional analysis of emotional labour. Leah speaks and lectures, including for UN Women, in the House of Commons, at the Trades Union Congress, and at Queen Mary University of London. Her first book, BORDER NATION, breaking down the borders of migration, was published in 2021.
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