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Alison Phipps

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I’m a UK-based scholar, writer and teacher working in the area of gender, with a specific focus on sexual violence. I’m Professor of Political Sociology and Associate Head of Social Sciences, Politics, IR and Religion at York St John University. I’m also honorary Professor in the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York.

My latest book is called Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism, and is published by Manchester University Press. My last book was called Me, Not You: the trouble with mainstream feminism, and was also with Manchester University Press.

Average rating: 4.14 · 388 ratings · 50 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors
Me, Not You: The Trouble wi...

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Readers’ questions: response piece

I recently wrote a blog for the Manchester University Press ‘Race, Empire and Resistance’ series, in response to some brilliant questions by readers of Sexual Violence in Racial Capitalism. The blog covers some of the book’s central concepts and claims, while also reflecting on some of the issues it leaves unresolved and how these might open up opportunities for future work. Read the blog here and

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Jo sí, tu no by Alison Phipps
"Agudo, fácil de leer, reflexiona sobretodo sobre el movimiento “Me too”, elitista, blanco, purista.

Lleno de matices interesante sobre cómo la lucha por la igualdad de género pasa, inevitablemente, por la reflexión de una lucha también de clase. " Read more of this review »
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“Trans-exclusionary and anti-sex-work feminism amplify the mainstream movement’s desire for power and authority, and pursue it by policing the borders of feminism and womanhood. The mainstream preoccupation with threat becomes an overt ‘us and them’ mentality, and the necropolitical desire for annihilation is deliberately turned on more marginalised people.”
― Alison Phipps, Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism

“White women have a right to be angry about sexual violence. Survivors have a right to spaces without abusers. All survivors fantasise about revenge. But whose bodies are forfeit when white women mobilise punitive state and institutional power to achieve it? Who are the real casualties of the white feminist war machine?”
― Alison Phipps, Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism

“Claiming to be silenced amplifies and circulates reactionary forms of speech by generating outrage. And this manoeuvre works not because reactionary feminists are speaking truth to power and being accused of transphobia, but because they are speaking for power by expressing transphobia.”
― Alison Phipps, Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism

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