Undoing Impunity: Speech After Sexual Violence

by V. Geetha

Book Overview

Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity--perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech--both in courts of justice and outside of them. Those who speak out not only advance a politics of accountability, but also an ethics of recognition, suffering, and hurt.

Undoing Impunity explores the contours...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9384757772
• ISBN13: 9789384757779
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Zubaan Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.6" x 8.6"