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Double launch for RMIT author
RMIT University academic, Associate Professor Adrian Howe, is launching not just
one but two books next week.
The first is Sex, Violence and Crime: Foucault and the ‘Man’ Question, published by
Routledge-Cavendish. It will be launched by Professor Margaret Thornton, ARC
Professorial Fellow, College of Law, Australian National University.
The second is Women, Crime and Social Harm: Towards a Criminology for the
Global Era (Onati International Series in Law and Society, Hart), co-edited with
Maureen Cain. The book will be launched by Pamela Tate, SC, Solicitor-General of
Victoria.
Associate Professor Howe asks: “What happens when you sex violent crimes?
More specifically, what happens when you make men’s violence against women the
subject of a conversation or the focus of scholarly attention? The short answer is: all
hell breaks loose.”
In Sex, Violence and Crime, Associate Professor Howe explores some of the ways
in which this persistent form of violence has been named and unnamed as a
significant social problem in western countries over the past four decades.
The book has been described by leading scholar Carol Smart as “a feminist tour de
force, a passionate book that will take its rightful place in the canon”. It has been
nominated for the prestigious UK-based SLSA-Hart Socio-Legal Book Prize and for
the 2009 Herbert Jacob Book Prize for the most outstanding law and society book
published in 2008.
Women, Crime and Social Harm is an introduction by and about women, the harms
and crimes to which they are subjected as a result of global social processes and
their efforts to take control of their own futures.
Associate Professor Howe said: “Contributors from India, Africa, the West Indies,
Australia and the UK explore the damaging consequences of policies of global
financial institutions, as well as the effects of growing economic polarisation in
pockets of the developed world and, most markedly, in the global south.”
Event:
Book launch
Date:
Tuesday, 2 December
Time:
6pm
Venue:
The Order of Melbourne (Level 2, 401 Swanston Street,
opposite RMIT University)
For interviews: Associate Professor Adrian Howe, adrian.howe@rmit.edu.au
For general media enquiries: RMIT Media and Communications, David Glanz,
(03) 9925 2807 or 0438 547 723.
24 November, 2008
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