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LBB Presents: Leigh Goodmark - Imperfect Victims
Left Bank Books and St. Louis University Women and Gender Studies presents Leigh Goodmark to discuss her new book "Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism." "Imperfect Victims" was named one of the Best Books of 2023 by Progressive Magazine!
Goodmark will personalize and sign copies after the presentation! Personalized and signed copies will be available to be mailed anywhere in the country. For personalized copies, please order before noon on April 25th.
Join us at Left Bank Books
399 N Euclid Ave
St. Louis, MO 63108
Please RSVP as space is limited. Please note any accessibility needs in the RSVP: https://forms.gle/AmUuZBxntpzJY6fx6
Watch the livestream on Left Bank Books' YouTube Page: https://www.youtube.com/@LeftBankBooks/streams
Order the book: https://www.left-bank.com/book/9780520391123
About the Speaker:
Leigh Goodmark is Marjorie Cook Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Carey School of Law and the author of "Decriminalizing Domestic Violence: A Balanced Policy Approach to Intimate Partner Violence" and "A Troubled Marriage: Domestic Violence and the Legal System."
About "Imperfect Victims":
A profound, compelling argument for abolition feminism--to protect criminalized survivors of gender-based violence, we must dismantle the carceral system.
Since the 1970s, anti-violence advocates have worked to make the legal system more responsive to gender-based violence. But greater state intervention in cases of intimate partner violence, rape, sexual assault, and trafficking has led to the arrest, prosecution, conviction, and incarceration of victims, particularly women of color and trans and gender-nonconforming people. "Imperfect Victims" argues that only dismantling the system will bring that punishment to an end.
Amplifying the voices of survivors, including her own clients, abolitionist law professor Leigh Goodmark deftly guides readers on a step-by-step journey through the criminalization of survival. Abolition feminism reveals the possibility of a just world beyond the carceral state, which is fundamentally unable to respond to, let alone remedy, harm. As "Imperfect Victims" shows, abolition feminism is the only politics and practice that can undo the indescribable damage inflicted on survivors by the very system purporting to protect them.
"Be prepared to get angry. Through a blend of shocking stories and even more outrageous statistics, Goodmark challenges and complicates our country's dominant narratives about violence and safety. The main lesson of 'Imperfect Victims' is not that police and prisons keep us safe from gender-based violence, but the opposite--that the legal system not only continually fails, but further punishes, survivors of gender-based violence. Goodmark challenges us to rethink long-ingrained notions of violence, safety, healing, and punishment and to work toward creating the world we want to see."--Victoria Law, author of "Resistance behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women"
Event Links
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