A powerful case for freedom and transformation, for accountability and repair - the next course for feminism in the era of #MeToo With analytical clarity and narrative force, The Feminist and the Sex Offender contends with two problems that, despite their inextricable linkages, are typically siloed in the era of #MeToo and mass incarceration: sexual and gender violence, on the one hand, and the state's unjust, ineffective, and soul-destroying response to it. Levine and Meiners ask if it's possible to confront the culture of abuse, to hold harm-doers accountable, without recourse to a criminal justice system that redoubles injuries, fails survivors, and retrenches the conditions that made such abuse possible. Drawing on personal experience, reportage, and history, Feminist Justice develops an intersectional feminist approach to ending sexual violence. It maps with considerable detail the unjust sex offender regime while highlighting the alternatives we urgently need.

Judith Levine is a longtime journalist and author of countless articles and commentaries in popular media—Village Voice, New York Times, Harper’s, Boston Review, n+1, and others—as well as four books. Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex won the LA Times Book Award.
Erica R. Meiners is a Professor of Education and Women’s and Gender Studies at Northeastern Illinois University and the author of several books, most recently For the Children? Protecting Innocence in a Carceral State.