On Violence and on Violence Against Women

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A blazingly insightful, provocative study of violence, and violence against women, by a peerless feminist critic. What is violence? We might subscribe to the old truism: We know it when we see it. We see it in the streets, where Black people are dying at the hands of the police. We see it in our courts, whose scales are tipped toward the powerful. We see it in the cruel inequalities exposed by a global pandemic. But can we ever really see it? And what about all the forms of violence, unrecorded, behind closed doors, that can't be seen? In her startling and profound new book, the world-renowned critic and scholar Jacqueline Rose examines the origins and consequences of violence in its most insidious and blatant forms. She roves far and wide, from postapartheid South Africa to Trump's White House; from the writings of Roxane Gay and Han Kang to trans rights, sexual assault, and the #MeToo movement; from Hollywood to the southern Texas border, confronting the most pressing questions of our time. What obscene pleasure in violence do so many male leaders in the Western world unleash in their supporters? Is violence always gendered and, if so, always in the same way? What is required of the human mind when it grants itself permission to enact violence? And how do we write about, visualize, and tell the truth about violence without becoming complicit? On Violence and On Violence Against Women refuses simple answers. It is a timely and urgent agitation against injustice, a provocation, and a meaningful call to action. -- From dust jacket