Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Challenging despair, talking about women’s resistance to violence
Other Titles:	Violence against women
Authors:	Hollander, Jocelyn A
Keywords:	Representations of women;Theories of violence;Training
Year:	2005
Publisher:	Sage Publications
Citation:	11 (6), June 2005
Notes:	This article describes a teaching approach about violence against women, which also discusses information about women’s individual and collective resistance. It addresses concerns about traditional approaches that focus on victimisation that disempowers students, and which also only provides a partial view of the reality of violence in women’s lives. It discusses how to integrate the theme of resistance into the definition of violence, assigned class readings, guest speakers, and course assignments. These strategies help to balance students’ feelings of vulnerability and hopelessness when learning about violence. It suggests that cultural beliefs about women’s inherent vulnerability to violence may help to reinforce violence by increasing men’s confidence and by decreasing women’s confidence to resist.
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/13728
ISSN:	1077-8012
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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