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"""Seldom does a work of cultural theory force us to revisit an entire universe of evidence as if we had never seen it before. Taking as her starting point the sexual assault and murder of three women in Spain that marked a whole generation in the 1990s, Nerea Barjola conducts a thorough study that will from now on be required reading for anyone interested in the politics of rape and sexual violence.""--Paul Preciado, Testo Junkie ""This is the great contribution that The Sexist Microphysics of Power makes to the feminist fight against violence ... and against the complicity of the media with institutional sexism ... the book is unique in its examination of the many tricks that journalists use to redirect attention in the crime toward the character of the victim, cruelly using women's fear and the suffering we see around us to denigrate our demands for freedom.""--Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch ""The three hundred pages of The Sexist Microphysics of Power have been passed along from hand to hand, between friends, almost like smuggled photocopies with a Post-It attached: 'Read this. It's about the reasons for our fear.' Hers is a landmark in political research.""--El Pa�s"

"""Seldom does a work of cultural theory force us to revisit an entire universe of evidence as if we had never seen it before. Taking as her starting point the sexual assault and murder of three women in Spain that marked a whole generation in the 1990s, Nerea Barjola conducts a thorough study that will from now on be required reading for anyone interested in the politics of rape and sexual violence.""--Paul Preciado, Testo Junkie ""This is the great contribution that The Sexist Microphysics of Power makes to the feminist fight against violence ... and against the complicity of the media with institutional sexism ... the book is unique in its examination of the many tricks that journalists use to redirect attention in the crime toward the character of the victim, cruelly using women's fear and the suffering we see around us to denigrate our demands for freedom.""--Silvia Federici, Caliban and the Witch ""The three hundred pages of The Sexist Microphysics of Power have been passed along from hand to hand, between friends, almost like smuggled photocopies with a Post-It attached: 'Read this. It's about the reasons for our fear.' Hers is a landmark in political research.""--El País"

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Nerea Barjola Ramos is a feminist scholar and militant whose work focuses on popular representations of sexual violence. She received her doctorate in Feminisms and Gender from the University of the Basque Country and lives in Bilbao, Spain.Emily Mack is a translator, teacher, and amateur carpenter active in the feminist struggle and other social movements. Born near Birmingham, England, she is now based in Girona, Catalonia, where she lives, works, and agitates. Silvia Federici is a feminist activist, teacher, and writer, who in 1972 was among the founders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the Campaign for Wages for Housework in the US and abroad. Her most important work, Caliban and the Witch, has been translated into fourteen languages. She is also the author of Revolution at Point Zero and Re-enchanting the World.

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