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Francoise Verges

    Dekoloniální feminismus
    A Programme of Absolute Disorder
    Making the World Clean
    A Feminist Theory of Violence
    A Decolonial Feminism
    The Wombs of Women
    • 2024

      Making the World Clean

      Wasted Lives, Wasted Environment, and Racial Capitalism

      • 248 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      Exploring the intersection of race and domestic labor, this book presents a groundbreaking antiracist perspective on cleaning practices. It challenges conventional notions of cleanliness and examines how societal standards often reflect and perpetuate racial inequalities. Through a critical lens, the author discusses the implications of cleaning on identity and community, advocating for a redefined understanding that promotes equity and justice in domestic spaces. This work encourages readers to rethink their relationship with cleanliness and its broader social impact.

      Making the World Clean
    • 2024
    • 2022

      The State will not protect us from gender violence. Our feminism must be anti- racist and decolonial, and must fight for everyone's safety

      A Feminist Theory of Violence
    • 2021
    • 2020

      Francoise Verges examines the scandal of white doctors forcefully terminating the pregnancies of thousands of poor women of color on the French island of Reunion during the 1960s, showing how they resulted from the legacies of the racialized violence of slavery and colonialism.

      The Wombs of Women