Survivor Injustice
State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy
by Kylie Cheung
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Pub Date 15 Aug 2023 | Archive Date 1 Aug 2023
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Description
"An astonishingly original, powerfully honest vision for true survivor justice." —Kirkus, starred review
For readers of The Revolution Starts at Home, Feminism for the 99%, and Good and Mad.
Incisive, urgent, and written exactly for our post-Roe times, Survivor Injustice is the feminist frame-changing read we need now--for each of us, and for all that’s at stake.
With an abolitionist lens, journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung shows how domestic abuse and state violence are systemic and interconnected. She shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a “private matter” perpetrated by individual bad actors--and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics. Cheung explores:
- The links between capitalism and domestic abuse: how late-stage capitalism colludes with the state to incentivize forced birth and reproductive coercion
- Intimate partner violence as a tool of political silence and social control
- America’s tacit acceptance of sexual assault, from the home to the White House
- The interplay of race, power, gender, and sexuality in state-based violence
- How the United States runs on carcerality, and what that means for victims
- The way we view survival crimes, and our complicity in defining which acts are “violent” and whose actions are “criminal”
- How white feminism and carceral feminism fail us all
A Note From the Publisher
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Advance Praise
"A searing indictment of the ways that gendered violence—which, as Cheung intentionally explains, is horrific in and of itself—exacerbates inequality and violence within democracy and our broader social structures. Cheung skillfully dissolves the veil between the personal and political in her reporting and her prose, and the result is shattering, even for those who are deeply familiar with these issues. This is an urgent read."
—Becca Andrews, author of No Choice and political journalist focusing on reproductive rights
"Kylie Cheung exposes how domestic abuse and sexual violence targeting women of Asian descent is frequently overlooked, downplayed, and rendered invisible. A compelling and important book for these times."
—Michele Goodwin, author of Policing the Womb, host of Ms. magazine’s “On the Issues” podcast, and Chancellor’s Professor at UC Irvine School of Law
“Survivor Injustice is beautifully threaded with Cheung's lived experience, depth of knowledge, and expertise. Kylie creates an easy-to-follow roadmap, helping readers to understand how we got here and where we're going. This book could not be more timely and powerful. As a survivor, I felt so seen and held in Kylie's words. If you are a survivor yourself, or you love a survivor, this book is for you.”
—Alison Turkos, activist
"A must-read analysis of the devastating impact gender-based violence plays in upholding white male supremacy. Cheung makes it impossible for readers to walk away without examining their own actions—both implicit and explicit—that contribute to the oppression of marginalized communities."
—Robin Marty, author of Handbook for a Post-Roe America and reproductive rights movement journalist
“Survivor Injustice connects the dots between gender violence—both interpersonal and structural—and urgent threats to American democracy. Drawing on her years of reporting and her personal experiences, Cheung is an expert yet accessible and engaging guide through complex terrain.”
–Alexandra Brodsky, author of Sexual Justice
“An essential commentary on how American capitalism, the carceral system, voter suppression, and white supremacy entangle themselves in service of maintaining power and control over women, and in particular women and gender-expansive people of color. At once incisive and devastating, personal and communal, this book lays a foundation for a future in which our collective survival is not bound up with the very systems that exploit, pathologize, and denigrate our experiences and identities but is rather led by a vision of justice that values and honors the complexities, subtleties, and non-linearity of survivors’ lives and truths.”
—Dana Sussman, acting executive director of Pregnancy Justice
“Kylie Cheung is at the height of her powers with Survivor Injustice. By turns personal and political, journalist and Gen Z feminist Cheung expertly and persuasively draws the connections between domestic abuse and state-based violence, interrogates the white-washing of Asian-American women and girls from the conversation about victimhood, and reveals the ways we as a society criminalize people of color and women and girls. This is an urgent, must-read call to action.”
—Kera Bolonik, editor-in-chief of DAME Magazine and author of the forthcoming book, Gullible
"Survivor Injustice connects the dots between gender violence—both interpersonal and structural—and urgent threats to American democracy. Drawing on her years of reporting and her personal experiences, Cheung is an expert yet accessible and engaging guide through complex terrain.
–Alexandra Brodsky, author of Sexual Justice
Marketing Plan
- Priority publicity title
- Physical and digital ARCs
- National review campaign
- Author-penned articles that leverage the author's staff position at Jezebel
- Outreach to feminist, political, activist and explicity anti-police, women-focused, BIPOC, millennial, and Gen Z media
- Academic outreach to women's studies and gender studies readers
- Focused consideration in pop feminism and cultural criticism
Available Editions
EDITION | Other Format |
ISBN | 9781623179083 |
PRICE | US$19.95 (USD) |
PAGES | 352 |
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