{"product_id":"the-sexist-microphysics-of-power","title":"The Sexist Microphysics of Power","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 \u003cspan\u003ecase whose strangeness and brutality continues to draw popular speculation decades later. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeminist theorist Nerea Barjola retraces the high-profile search to find them a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003end the media frenzy of the ensuing trial to explore our \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecultural fascination with the harm done to women’s bodies. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe graphic rehearsal of the details in news and media fuels cautionary tales of sexual danger that induce in women a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e mental map of places they can and cannot go, the activities they dare not do.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRape 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. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis, Barjola argues, is the frontline \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor female transgression, freedom, and resistance.\u003c\/span\u003e\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 \u003cspan\u003eJudith 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003epropose a paradigm shift in our understanding of the systemic impact of gender violence and of a culture the relishes in its lurid repetition.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2021, the Spanish government awarded the book a national distinction for the significance of its research for social transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nerea Barjola","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":51974293651672,"sku":"9781849355506","price":35.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9781849355506.jpg?v=1783702285","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/products\/the-sexist-microphysics-of-power","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}