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Challenging the notion that women are simply victims, this in-depth discussion is a celebration of women's resistance. Exploring the moments beyond victimization, this argument emphasizes that women do not stay crushed and broken but instead strive forward to continue building and growing. The Contributors highlight the various forms of resistance-political, legal, and cultural-stressing that women must do what is in their power to combat being politically passive. Identifying the "women-as-victim" concept as consistent with right-wing, conservative agendas, this reference states that women must not adhere to "men's way" in the workplace or at home. Displaying the diversity of action surrounding women's resistance, this investigation illustrates the need for social equality and justice between genders.
Contents
Contents Section I: Theory and Praxis Introduction (Ellen Faulkner and Gayle MacDonald) Chapter 1: Rethinking the Critique of 'Victim Feminism' (Rebecca Stringer) Section II: Legal Challenge/Reform and Resistance Chapter 2: Flight: Women Abuse and Children's Habitual Resistance in The Hague Convention on International Child Abduction (Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich) Chapter 3: Bad Girls like Good Contracts: Ontario Erotic Dancers Collective Resistance (Suzanne Bouclin) Chapter 4: 'Be Active, Be Emancipated' (BABE)-Women's Response to Violence and War (Doris Goedl) Section III: The Politics of Resistance Chapter 5: The Raging Grannies: Outrageous Hats, Satirical Songs and Civil Disobedience (Carole Roy) Chapter 6: Not a Tough Enough Skin?A": Resisting Paternalist Relations in Academe (Norma Jean Profit) Chapter 7: Representing Victims of Sexualized Assault (Linda Coates and Penny Ridley) Section IV: Resilience/Identity Formation Chapter 8: Queer Dispositions: A Case Study in Trans-gressing the Limits of Law (Lisa Passante) Chapter 9: In Defiance of Compulsory Mothering: Voluntarily Childfree Women's Resistance (Debra Mollen) Chapter 10: Playing Games With the Law: Legal Advocacy and Resistance (Karen Rosenberg) Chapter 11: Resistance and Recovery: Three Women's Testimony on Addiction and Collective Sites of Recovery (Jean Toner) Section V: Historical Forms of Resistance Chapter 12: Milk Enough for All: Breast-giving, Fugitivity and the Limits of Resistance (Lynn Makau) Chapter 13: Insane But Not an Ideological Convert: Nakamoto Takoto's Claim to Political Dissidence in Prewar Japan (Janice Matsumura) Bibliography.
