On Violence and On Violence Against Women

Why has violence, & especially violence against women, become so much more prominent & visible across the world? To explore this question, Jacqueline Rose tracks the multiple forms of today’s violence – historic & intimate, public & private – as they spread throughout our social fabric, offering a new, provocative account of violence in our time.

From trans rights & #MeToo to the sexual harassment of migrant women, from the trial of Oscar Pistorius to domestic violence in lockdown, from the writing of Roxanne Gay to Hisham Mitar & Han Kang, she casts her net wide. What obscene pleasure in violence do so many male leaders of the Western world unleash in their supporters? Is violence always gendered & if so, always in the same way? What is required of the human mind when it grants itself permission to do violence?

On Violence & On Violence Against Women is a timely & urgent agitation against injustice, a challenge to radical feminism & a meaningful call to action.