Apr 30, 2025 - ”Sexual Violence as a Pretext for Disposal: Rape, Race and Carcerality,” a Conversation with Professor Alison Phipps (Sociology), Newcastle University, UK

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presentation and discussion with Professor Alison Phipps (Sociology), Newcastle University, UK, on "Sexual Violence as a Pretext for Disposal: Rape, Race and Carcerality."

Professor Alison Phipps is a political sociologist and scholar of gender with interests in feminist theory and politics, the body and violence and neoliberal racial capitalism. She has pursued these in various areas including sexual violence, sex work, reproduction, and institutional cultures. Find her faculty profile at Newcastle University here.

Professor Phipps has been Chair of the Feminist and Women's Studies Association UK and Ireland and was a co-founder of the Safe Studies Network (now Universities Against Gender-Based Violence). She is currently co-leading the Feminist Gender Equality Network's gender-based violence group and she is one of the patrons of the Association of Gender Studies in Africa. She recently launched a new collective called Abolition Feminism for Ending Sexual Violence, with her Newcastle colleagues Nikki Godden-Rasul and Tina Sikka. 

Phipps is the author of many articles and books, and a full list is at her faculty profile. These include Me, Not You: The Trouble with Mainstream Feminism (Manchester University Press, 2020), and The Politics of the Body: Gender in a Neoliberal and Neoconservative Age (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014, Winner of the 2015 FWSA Book Prize).

Series organizers (alphabetical) are Amber Broaden (CSUSB and CSU Dominguez Hills, Psychology), Stan Futch (President, Westside Action Group), Michael German (Brennan Center for Justice), Robie Madrigal (Pfau Library), Dr. Jeremy Murray (CSUSB History), Matt Patino (Crafton Hills College Adjunct Faculty), Dr. Mary Texeira (CSUSB Sociology). Click here to view previous panels in the Conversations on Race and Policing series (link).