Feminists Resisting Gendered Violence

An anthology of feminist perspectives combining arts-based interventions with scholarship, activism, testimony, and lived experience to address contemporary gendered violence.At a time when gendered violence is intensifying, and even the language and mechanisms for addressing it are being constrained, this timely anthology foregrounds creative, critical, collective, and transnational responses built from the ground up. Across essays, artworks, testimonies, and reflections by a diverse group of contributors—artists, activists, scholars, and community organisers—the collection illuminates violence as legal and institutional, intimate and structural, historical and contemporary, visible and painfully ordinary. Through art, song, performance, archives, and digital practices, it renders legible forms of harm that are often marginalised or silenced in formal policy and legal discourse. In doing so, the collection redefines what counts as evidence, resistance, and justice precisely at a moment when such expansion is most needed. Going beyond documentation, it invites readers to think urgently and expansively about how gendered violence is locally named, remembered, resisted, and transformed. Offering both insight and inspiration, it highlights feminist collaboration across borders as a crucial resource for understanding and challenging violence in the present.Contributing authors: Maria Krayem Abdo, Maria Alina Asavei, Hazel Atkinson, Gabrielle Bardall, Linda Bartolomei, Esther Wanyema Baruti, Christine Bell, Sutanuka Bhattacharya, Ahmed S. Bile, Clayton Boeyink, Jan Breckenridge, Anna Bull, Urvashi Butalia, Divya Chopra, Jo Clifford, Lydia C. Cole, Kyllie Cripps, Ngozi Anyadike-Danes, Adrija Dey, Maria Adela Diaz, Anni Donaldson, Catherine Donovan, Sarah Easy, Jean-Benoît Falisse, Eliza Garnsey, Nicole George, Rina Ghafoerkhan, Radhika Govinda, Rosemary Grey, Anne Marie Hicks, Maša Hilčišin, Claire Houghton, Anna Hush, Laura Jeffrey, Rachana Johri, Leonard Muzee Kazamwali, Seema Kazi, Bindu K.C., Corrine Kumar, Ishtar Lakhani, Rowena Lawrie, Amy Life, Lucy Lowe, Amina Jama Mahmud, Rwitee Mandal, Lesley McMillan, Rachna Mehra, Krishna Menon, Zubin Mistry, Claire Mitchell KC, Said A. Mohamoud, Henry Ngongo Muganza, Denise Mapendo Mukwege, Sharessa Naidoo, Manjula O’Connor, Lili Pâquet, Jasmeen Patheja, Jennifer M. Piscopo, Eileen Pittaway, Karine Polwart, Lora Prabhu, Ulrike Roth, Mohamed A. Ali-Salad, Balvinder Kaur Saund, Rukmini Sen, Garima Singh, Sara Singh, Kirsty M. Stewart, Mailin Suchting, Anne Summers, Mayur Suresh, Masuma Tavakoli, Mareese Terare, David Nieuwe Weme, Deborah White, Zoe Venditozzi.This book will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed in partnership between JSTOR, the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), University of Michigan Press, and The University of North Carolina Press to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world. Learn more at https://about.jstor.org/path-to-open/