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Book Review: Femicide across Europe: Theory, research and prevention

referendums and ballot initiatives, legal and judicial processes and decisions, and advances within legislative bodies and executive branches of government on local, state, and federal levels. The authors’ portrayal of routes to social change provides an excellent road map for students. Given the volume and density of material presented, the book is best suited for graduateand doctoral-level coursework. The greatest limitation of this text is the absence of material exploring intersections of race and class. The authors discuss ways the lesbian and gay rights movement jettisoned transgender people and their needs early on yet fail to address who is and is not included within mainstream lesbian and gay and transgender rights movements in terms of race and class. Consequently, they also fail to explore how achieved policy changes differentially impact trans people of color and those living in poverty. While the discussion of hate crimes laws acknowledges the high incidence of violence in communities of color, this section fails to address intersections of gender, given that trans women of color are most at risk. The book’s central question would be strengthened by exploring the dramatic progress in attaining trans rights, not only in terms of the community’s small size and political marginalization but also the widespread discrimination, poverty, and violence experienced by so many in trans communities of color. While the current federal administration has rolled back many previously implemented policy changes and is already reshaping the judiciary through anti-lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender appointments, the authors call these short-term setbacks and argue that the transgender rights movement has “developed into a robust and institutionalized social movement that can ‘outpunch its weight class’ through its inclusion in the LGBT rights coalition and in the Democratic Party” (p. 306). Their “cautious optimism for the future” injects a welcome note of hope for all those working for equity and social justice.