TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2005//
TI  - Challenging Despair: Teaching About Women's Resistance to Violence
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Hollander, Jocelyn A.
SP  - 776
EP  - 791
VL  - 11
IS  - 6
N2  - In this article, the author describes an approach to teaching about violence against women that balances discussion of violence with information about women's individual and collective resistance. This strategy addresses two concerns about traditional approaches to this topic: that focusing only on victimization disempowers students and that it provides only a partial view of the reality of violence in women's lives. To address these problems, the author integrates discussion of resistance into the class's working definition of violence, assigned readings, guest speakers, and course assignments. The author concludes with a discussion of the positive effects of this approach.
LA  - 
SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801205274808
ID  - ref1
ER  -