Sarah Schulman: Sarah Schulman is a novelist, nonfiction writer, playwright, screenwriter, journalist and AIDS historian, and the author of eighteen books. A Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellow, Sarah is a Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the City University of New York, College of Staten Island, and on the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace.
"With awesome brilliance and insight, Sarah Schulman offers readers
new strategies to intervene on all relations of domination both
personal and political. The core of this book provides ways to
think and move beyond blaming and/or assuming victimhood -- so that
each of us may come to understand the role we assume in creating
and sustaining conflicts in all our relations. Sharing myriad ways,
critical vigilance can help us all understand that conflict need
not be viewed as abuse, that essential distinctions may be made
between the hurt we experience in conflict and the violence of
abuse, Schulman offers a vision of mutual recognition and
accountability that liberates." --bell hooks "It's impossible to be
invested in the world and not be invested in this groundbreaking
and challenging book. From a position of artist and social critic,
Sarah Schulman gives us a detailed and considered reading of some
of our most overly determined and venomous conflicts. Conflict Is
Not Abuse is a book to interrogate, ponder, and discuss." --Claudia
Rankine "Schulman's book could not have come at a better time ...
Conflict is a balm against comforting explanations for violence and
abuse, ones we know aren't true, just easy." --Village Voice
"Conflict's publication could not be timelier ... A sharply
observant and relevant text that is already getting its wish for
action granted." --Lambda Literary
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