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Misogyny Re-Loaded
Misogyny Re-Loaded

Misogyny Re-Loaded

PHILOSOPHY

168 Pages, 5.5 x 8.5

Formats: EPUB, PDF, Mobipocket, Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $29.95 (US $29.95) (CA $35.95)

Publication Date: January 2014

ISBN 9781876756901

Rights: US, CA & MX

Spinifex Press (Jan 2014)

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Overview

Blending personal experience with rigorous study, this explosive manifesto rails against what it presents as the resurgent sexual fascism of the new world order. By exposing everything from the casual acceptance of snuff pornography in “gore” culture to the framing of rape as a punch line, Abigail Bray links the celebration of sexual sadism to the rise of an authoritarian culture of militarized violence. Arguing that a meaningful collective resistance has been undermined by the mass destruction of genuine social and economic security for ordinary women, Misogyny Re-loaded presents a scathing critique of a politically convenient, billionaire-friendly, mainstream brand of feminism. Drawing on a wide range of resources from popular culture, literature, economics, psychiatry, psychology, philosophy, and environmental science, this book offers a warning about the growing social and environmental threat of an out-of-control military industrial complex.

Reviews

"A timely and confronting exposé of misogyny, a contemporary expression of fascism in a most sophisticated and devastating form. Written with sharp intellect and uncompromising prose Abigail Bray’s book deftly critiques oppressive systems . . . . The current escalation of violence against women makes this a must-read."  —Mary Lucille Sullivan, author, Making Sex Work: A Failed Experiment with Legalised Prostitution

"An angry, passionate, and polemical book that draws connections between pornography, the pharmaceutical industry, self-help culture and social media to launch an inflammatory attack against patriarchal capitalism."  —Rosalind Gill, professor of social and cultural analysis, City University London

Author Biography

Abigail Bray is a writer who has held research positions at several universities in Australia. She has published numerous peer-reviewed articles on the topics of embodiment, moral panic, sexualization, and violence and is the author of Body Talk: A Power Guide for Girls and Hélène Cixous: Writing and Sexual Difference. She is the coeditor of Big Porn Inc: Exposing the Harms of the Global Pornography Industry.