Foucault, Feminism, and Sex Crimes

"This is a rich, rigorously argued, and provocative volume that makes a distinctive new contribution to the Foucauldian feminist literature on sex crimes . . . At every turn, the argumentation is thoughtful, measured and politically dedicated to advancing feminist alternatives to punishment. For Foucauldians, it offers a rigorous engagement with Foucault's writings on rape and paedophilia, and feminists responses to them. For any reader interested in feminism, sex crimes, and criminal punishment, it extends Foucauldian insights to new issues (such as sex work, animal sexual abuse and serial killers) in ways that will make this book an indispensable resource for subsequent debates and research on crime, punishment, and justice." – Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

"Taylor’s powerful scholarly intervention uses Foucault’s work—while being critical of it—to problematize feminist conceptions of the relation between sex and justice and promises to be a landmark work in the debates around Foucault’s relation to feminism." – Mark G. E. Kelly, Western Sydney University

"Chloë Taylor has written an exciting critique of feminism’s responses to sex crimes. Even in the face of atrocious sexual violence, the usual calls for more police, harsher sentences, and sustained mass imprisonment are thoroughly mistaken. Instead, Taylor demonstrates that we need to respond without criminalizing or pathologizing sex offenders, and gives concrete examples how we can so." – Frieder Vogelmann, University of Bremen