TY  - SER
AU  - Jordan, Jan
TI  - What would MacGyver do? The meaning(s) of resistance and survival
T2  - Violence Against Women
SN  - 1552-8448
PY  - 2005///
KW  - FVC
KW  - INTERVENTION
KW  - RAPE
KW  - TREATMENT
KW  - WOMEN
KW  - PREVENTION
KW  - SEXUAL VIOLENCE
N1  - Violence Against Women 11(4) April 2005 : 531-559
N2  - This article draws on interviews with victims of New Zealand serial rapist, Malcolm Rewa, conducted for the author's doctoral thesis. The author looks at the contradictory messages women have historically been given: Physical resistance is necessary to prove rape occurred, but also resistance can aggravate the violence. The author details women's physical and mental rape survival strategies and connects the women's accounts with current understandings about rape prevention, self-defence and surviving rape. The concepts of resistance and survival are discussed as they relate to feminist theoretical debates about victimisation, women's agency, and resistance to power. The author concludes that rape is a physically and mentally violent act, and so women's resistance of the mind and spirit need to be recognised as much as their physical resistance. The content of this paper can be found in a paper presented at the Expanding Our Horizons conference, Sydney, NSW, 18-22 February 2002 - see second link
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801204273299 
UR  - http://www.adfvc.unsw.edu.au/Conference%20papers/Exp-horiz/Jordan.pdf
ER  -