{"product_id":"the-sexist-microphysics-of-power-the-alcsser-case-and-the-construction-of-sexual-terror-9781849355506","title":"The Sexist Microphysics of Power: The Alcàsser Case and the Construction of Sexual Terror","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking feminist text that frames our obsession with true crime as a form of sexual terror.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1992, three teenage girls went missing from the small town of Alcàsser in Valencia, Spain while on their way to a nightclub, in a case whose strangeness and brutality continues to draw popular speculation decades later. Feminist theorist Nerea Barjola retraces the high-profile search to find them and the media frenzy of the ensuing trial to explore our cultural fascination with the harm done to women's bodies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe graphic rehearsal of the details in news and media fuels cautionary tales of sexual danger that induce in women a mental map of places they can and cannot go, the activities they dare not do. Rape is not an individual crime but the expropriation of the female body, a threat leveled against a class of potential victims that shifts the burden of staying safe onto their own internalized policing. This, Barjola argues, is the frontline for female transgression, freedom, and resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering a feminist take on Giorgio Agamben's concept of bare life, this riveting case study identifies spaces where women cross beyond social limits--a house, a party, a car--into a place where danger is all but inevitable, where the state of exception turns into the scene of the crime. \u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSexist Microphysics of Power\u003c\/i\u003e builds on Judith Butler's work on performativity, Michel Foucault's thinking on the day-to-day operations of power, and Silvia Federici's analysis of the witch hunt to propose a paradigm shift in our understanding of the systemic impact of gender violence and of a culture the relishes in its lurid repetition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2021, the Spanish government awarded the book a national distinction for the significance of its research for social transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e AK Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781849355506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d","brand":"Nerea Barjola","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43896734220469,"sku":"9781849355506","price":19.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_23a1a280-1f9c-49c7-960e-53244fe0e829.jpg?v=1712632037","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-sexist-microphysics-of-power-the-alcsser-case-and-the-construction-of-sexual-terror-9781849355506","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}