Women's Resistance Strategies Research Articles

Exploring Jordanian women's resistance strategies to domestic violence: A scoping review.

Despite there being an abundant gender and social science research on domestic violence (DV) in Jordan, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is limited understanding and knowledge of women's resistance strategies to DV. To fill this gap, this study conducted a scoping review to synthesize and analyze 11 articles published in English-language scholarly journals between 2001 and 2021 by following the PRISMA-ScR guidelines. The databases of the University of Jordan Library, Dar Almandumah, PsycINFO, PubMed, Google Scholar, and Scopus were searched in December 2021. Our review found no scientific articles that primarily discussed Jordanian women's resistance to DV and explicate it as a secondary aim within the context of screening for the causes, consequences, and prevalence of DV. Therefore, while a few articles implicitly conceptualized women's resistance in the context of the patriarchal structure-either as tactics of physical, social, economic survival, and to protect their family and honor, or as consequences of DV-no article provided an explicit definition of this concept. The articles also deliberated on 12 resistance strategies that women use to deal with DV; predominant among them are daily resistance, activities hidden for immediate and de facto gains (e.g., to avoid beatings, divorce and family disintegration, the decision to keep their children, and maintaining economic stability). The most common strategies are silence and not seeking help, reporting to family members or friends, seeking legal and social advice, and reporting to the police or healthcare provider.

The Ambiguity of Men's Hegemony In American

Women in male domination and at the same time defends men with the dominance they have. This shows that there is an ambiguous attitude of a woman in responding to the discourse of male domination, injustice in the role of women and affirming women's resistance to male domination. From this, the main problem is the subject's response in dealing with the discourse of male domination through women's resistance strategies through participation in society. The concept or theory and research method used is hegemony. The results obtained are the idea of equality in education being used as a resistance strategy in the discourse of male domination and at the same time strengthening women's resistance to male domination. In addition, the strategy also developed the idea of women's strength based on educational equality, namely through access to higher education

NOVEL AMERICAN WIFE SITTENFELDKARYA ELIZABETH CURTIS : PENGARUH LAKI-LAKI TERHADAP PEREMPUAN

<p><em>The male hegemony in Elizabeth Curtis Sittenfeld's novel American Wife presents women with their dominance. This shows an ambiguous attitude of a woman in responding to the discourse of male domination, the injustice of women's roles and an affirmation of women's resistance to male domination. From here the main problem is the subject's response to the discourse of male domination through women's resistance strategies through participation in society. The concept or theory and the research method used are qualitative. The result obtained is that the idea of equality in education is used as a strategy of resistance in the discourse of male domination as well as strengthening women's resistance to male domination. In addition, the strategy also develops ideas about women's strength based on equality in education, namely through access to higher education.</em></p>

Mujeres negras y feminismo afrodiasporico en la agenda Brasil-Colombia

No presente documento busca-se evidenciar as formas de opressão, dominação e exploração a que são submetidas as mulheres negras no Brasil e na Colômbia e o feminismo afrodiasporico como alternativa dos movimentos de mulheres negras para a criação de uma agenda comum de resistência. Apresentam-se alguns elementos de análise interseccional de forma a perceber que entre ditas categorias existem relações cruzadas que fazem impossível assumir a primazia de alguma delas sobre outra. Algumas caraterísticas da população negra nesses territórios são demarcadas evidenciando as analogias presentes na diáspora africana na reinvenção da vida em diversas geografias. Procura-se destacar as principais semelhanças nas estratégias de resistência das mulheres negras grifando as caraterísticas comuns na luta contra o capitalismo patriarcal de supremacia branca.

Women's Resistance Strategies to Different Rapist Types

Women's resistance strategies to rape were examined using police reports and the court testimonies of 147 women who either had avoided rape or were raped by subsequently incarcerated rapists. Analyses examined whether particular resistance strategies used by women were differentially effective in response to attacks by different types of rapists. The results provided little evidence that the type of rapist influenced the efficacy of women's resistance strategies for avoiding rape and physical injury. This overall lack of significance suggests that previous findings showing that women's use of forceful resistance strategies enhances their ability to avoid rape without increasing their physical injury are accurate and do not need to be qualified based on the type of rapist committing the assault.

The Efficacy of Women's Resistance Strategies in Rape Situations

The effectiveness of women's resistance strategies for reducing the severity of sexual abuse and physical injury during sexual assaults was analyzed in a variety of assault circumstances. Data were obtained from police reports and court testimonies of 274 women (96% White, 4% Black) who either were raped or avoided rape by subsequently incarcerated violent stranger rapists. Statistical analyses showed that particular resistance strategies were effective in specific situations. Women who fought back forcefully were more likely to avoid rape than women who did not fight back, regardless of whether a weapon was present. Forceful fighting resistance was related to increased physical injury when a weapon was present, but most physical injury was caused by nonlethal weapons. Women who screamed or fled when confronted with weapons experienced less severe sexual abuse. Increased physical injury was associated with pleading, crying, or reasoning indoors. Women who used drugs or alcohol experienced more severe sexual abuse and physical injury.

Fighting Back

Women's resistance strategies to rape were examined using police reports and the court testimonies of 274 women who either avoided rape or were raped by subsequently incarcerated sex offenders. The sequence of behaviors in the offender-victim interaction was analyzed to determine whether women who resist rape with physical force are, as some have suggested, exacerbating the potential for physical injury or are simply responding to the severity of the offender's physical attack. The results indicated that 85% of the women in the study who resisted with physical force did so in response to the offender's initiated violence. The remaining 15% who resisted with physical force did so in response to the offender's verbal aggression. Moreover, those women who responded with physical aggression to the offender's violent physical attack were more likely to avoid rape than were women who did not resist such force. Also, the potential for physical injury was no greater for these women than for those who used other resistance strategies or who offered no resistance. These analyses suggest that the frequently found correlation between physical resistance and injury of the woman might be the result of the initial level of the offender's violence and should not be used to discourage women from physically resisting rape.