@article{ref1,
title="'Resistors,' 'helpless victims,' and 'willing participants': the construction of women's resistance in Canadian anti-violence policy",
journal="Social politics",
year="2010",
author="Paterson, Stephanie",
volume="17",
number="2",
pages="159-184",
abstract="Integrating insights from a problem representation approach and a feminist bargaining framework, I explore the &quot;lived effects&quot; of Canada's anti-wife abuse policy frameworks. The policy frameworks are premised on protection, which requires removal from danger. In effect, anti-violence policy problematizes the behavior of women, constructing women's resistance to abuse as only exit, falsely classifying the women who leave as &quot;resistors&quot; and those who stay as either &quot;helpless victims&quot; or &quot;willing participants&quot;. Where the &quot;helpless victims&quot; are constructed as policy problems, the other women are defined away from the policy frameworks, offered no protection from the state. The analysis reveals that anti-violence policy, far from protecting women, actually increases their vulnerability to abuse.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1072-4745",
doi="10.1093/sp/jxq001",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sp/jxq001"
}