A review by lindsirae
The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence by Erica Meiners, Judith Levine

2.0

it was fine, just kinda basic and focused on surface-level stuff. i found myself feeling really frustrated with how much it jumped around from microtopic to topic instead of spending time on a thoughtful, in-depth framework. it felt more like a collection of very brief internet articles than an academic work. most disappointingly, it didn’t improve my understanding of the topic or provide any practical advice for how to deal with sexual harm in your own community or social sphere unless you already have access to one of the few orgs they name dropped (which were almost exclusively located in the northeast). i’m left wondering who this book is for — i guess liberals who are unconvinced or on the fence about prison abolition? — because it definitely doesn’t read like something from a putatively socialist publishing house.