TY  - BOOK
AU  - Russo,Ann
TI  - Feminist Accountability: Disrupting Violence and Transforming Power 
SN  - 9780814777169
AV  - HQ1155 .R87 2019eb
U1  - 305.42 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Feminism
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Responsibility
KW  - Sex discrimination against women
KW  - Women
KW  - Violence against
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Islamophobic
KW  - antiracism
KW  - antiviolence movement
KW  - antiviolence
KW  - callous disregard
KW  - carceral feminism
KW  - collective interventions
KW  - community accountability
KW  - complicit
KW  - criminal legal system
KW  - deescalate
KW  - disrupt
KW  - empowerment
KW  - feminists of color
KW  - imperial conquest
KW  - imperial logics
KW  - interconnectedness
KW  - interlocking systems of oppression
KW  - interlocking systems
KW  - intersectionality
KW  - justice
KW  - militarism
KW  - myth of western superiority
KW  - oppression
KW  - power lines
KW  - privilege
KW  - punishment
KW  - racism
KW  - solidarity
KW  - storytelling
KW  - strategies
KW  - support circles
KW  - transformative justice
KW  - transnational feminists
KW  - transnational
KW  - white supremacy
KW  - whiteness
KW  - witnesses
N1  - restricted access
N2  - Explores accountability as a framework for building movements to transform systemic oppression and violence What does it take to build communities to stand up to injustice and create social change? How do we work together to transform, without reproducing, systems of violence and oppression?In an age when feminism has become increasingly mainstream, noted feminist scholar and activist Ann Russo asks feminists to consider the ways that our own behavior might contribute to the interlocking systems of oppression that we aim to dismantle. Feminist Accountability offers an intersectional analysis of three main areas of feminism in practice: anti-racist work, community accountability and transformative justice, and US-based work in and about violence in the global south. Russo explores accountability as a set of frameworks and practices for community- and movement-building against oppression and violence. Rather than evading the ways that we are implicated, complicit, or actively engaged in harm, Russo shows us how we might cultivate accountability so that we can contribute to the feminist work of transforming oppression and violence. Among many others, Russo brings up the example of the most prominent and funded feminist and LGBT antiviolence organizations, which have become mainstream in social service, advocacy, and policy reform projects. This means they often approach violence through a social service and criminal legal lens that understands violence as an individual and interpersonal issue, rather than a social and political one. As a result, they ally with, rather than significantly challenge, the state institutions, policies, and systems that underlie and contribute to endemic violence. Grounded in theories, analyses, and politics developed by feminists of color and transnational feminists of the global south, with her own thirty plus years of participation in community building, organizing, and activism, Russo provides insider expertise and critical reflection on leveraging frameworks of accountability to upend inequitable divides and the culture that supports them
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814777176
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814777176/original
ER  -