Vortex : The Crisis of Patriarchy.
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Chicago :
Spinifex Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: The Year of the Pandemic
- Introduction
- A note on truth
- A note on words
- Key terms in this book
- Chapter One: The Crisis of Economics: Patriarchal Wars against People and the Planet
- Appropriation of politics
- How has criticism of globalisation shifted sides?
- The speeding vortex: every failure is a new business opportunity
- Understanding neoliberalism
- Resistance
- Markets, work and the Universal Basic Income
- Chapter Two: Less Than Perfect: Medical Wars against People with Disabilities
- Feminism
- Ruling classes
- Infantilisation
- Colonisation
- Harm minimisation
- Normalisation
- Erasure
- The technology of bodies
- Money
- The personal is political
- Chapter Three: Feminist Cassandras: Men's Patriotic Wars against Women's Intimate Lives
- War and the institution of heterosexuality intersect
- War and masculinity, torture and heterosexuality
- Intimacy and war
- To counter war is to counter the militarism embedded in daily life
- Postmodern war
- Money
- What would it take for a woman to be free of injury and to live without fear for her safety?
- Chapter Four: Biocolonialism and Bioprospecting: Wars against Indigenous Peoples and Women
- What is bioprospecting?
- What is biopiracy?
- Biopiracy of earth-based resources
- Biopiracy and value
- Biopiracy of body-based resources
- Separation
- Microcolonialism of Indigenous bodies
- Gynocolonialism
- Bodies with disabilities
- Heterocolonialism
- Intergenerational sustainability and cultural integrity
- Money
- What practices and laws can be implemented to prevent knowledge theft and biocolonialism?
- Chapter Five: Deterritoriality and Breaking the Spirit: Land, Refugees and Trauma
- Being homeless in the body
- Dispossession
- Land as relationship
- Land as relationship in prehistory
- Trauma
- Refusing refugees
- Money
- What systems could be put in place to end planetary theft?
- Chapter Six: Colonisation, Erasure and Torture: Wars against Lesbians
- Globalisation
- The politics of shame
- The phallus and the penis
- Origins of patriarchy and violence against lesbians
- Nationalism and exile
- Global recolonisation
- Lesbian refugees
- Money
- Guidelines for officials interviewing lesbian refugees
- Chapter Seven: Breaking the Spirit of the Women's Liberation Movement: The War against Biology
- Trans vs cis
- Trans vs intersex
- Trans vs lesbian
- Trans vs women
- Women's Circus
- Oppression
- Postmodernism and queer theory
- Silence
- Trauma
- Hatred and shame
- Breaking the spirit
- Theft of a future and a past
- Commodification
- Strategies used by the trans lobby
- Violence against trans people
- Institutionalising trans laws