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Author_Alison Phipps
Carceral feminism
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Manosphere
necropolitics
Racial capitalism
Resource extraction
Sexual violence
Slavery
Social reproduction
Technofeudalism
Witch hunts
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- ISBN 9781526147349
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 05 May 2026
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Most texts on sexual violence treat capitalism as backdrop or afterthought. In contrast, political economy is the core of this book. Phipps explores the centrality of sexual violence to racial capitalist processes: the enclosure of bodies, the extraction of labour, the expropriation of land and resources, and the disposal of unwanted populations. Importantly, she argues that both sexual violence and sexual fear create social control and surplus value. Through a framework called the coloniality of sexual violence, Phipps conjoins acts of sexual violence and ideas of sexual threat in an analysis of gendered and raced property relations and the split colonial/modern psyche. She argues that fantasies of sexual danger represent the infolded violence of racial capitalism, which is why fear of revolution is often fear of rape. Revolution, however, is always imminent: violence is necessary because power is incomplete.
Alison Phipps is professor of political sociology and Head of SPIRE at York St John University, and honorary professor in the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York
