{"product_id":"the-violence-of-protection-lee-ann-s-wang-9781478033271","title":"The Violence of Protection: Policing, Immigration Law, and Asian American Women","description":"Celebrated as a feminist victory upon its passage as part of the Clinton Crime Bill, the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is a landmark piece of legislation that provides protections for survivors of gender and sexual violence. However, as Lee Ann S. Wang shows in \u003ci\u003eThe Violence of Protection\u003c\/i\u003e, VAWA primarily funds law enforcement efforts to rescue women, and in doing so, creates conditions of racial violence against survivors from communities who are already policed, surveilled, and face immigration enforcement. Through ethnographic fieldwork with legal and social advocates serving Asian American survivors of gender and sexual violence in the San Francisco Bay Area, Wang shows how these advocates grapple with laws which require survivors to cooperate with policing in order to receive protection. Engaging in methodologies of feminist refusal, theories of racial assemblage, and abolition feminisms, \u003ci\u003eThe Violence of Protection\u003c\/i\u003e theorizes the victim as a legal subject and exposes the racial violence enacted when State-provided legal safeguards are leveraged to expand punishment against survivors, their communities, and others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lee Ann S. Wang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478033274\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478033271\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Lee Ann S. Wang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965066100991,"sku":"9781478033271","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_758c3339-a39d-493d-b339-ce3b659b57ab.jpg?v=1767278187","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-violence-of-protection-lee-ann-s-wang-9781478033271","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}