TY  - SER
AU  - Murphy, Bell A.
TI  - Fighting back on feminist terms : : empowerment through self-defence in neoliberal times
PY  - 2018///
PB  - Springer, 
KW  - SEXUAL VIOLENCE
KW  - FEMINISM
KW  - PREVENTION
KW  - SELF DEFENCE
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - In: Orienting Feminism, edited by C.Dale and R. Overell (pp.71-94). Palgrave Macmillan
N2  - In neoliberal times, patriarchal narratives about “women who ask for it” combine with the myth of meritocracy to make the slippery slope between safety advice and victim-blame slicker than ever. The only interventions that have shown empirical reductions in sexual assaults are “feminist empowerment” programmes that equip women with effective resistance skills. So, how can a feminist approach be distinguished from neoliberal discourses that responsibilise women for crime prevention while claiming to “empower” them? Drawing on the author’s experience as a feminist self-defence teacher in Aotearoa, New Zealand, this chapter suggests that a feminist approach should attend to empowerment as a political process with three interlocking dimensions: personal, collective and subversive. Examples are given of how this is, and could be, attempted through feminist self-defence classes. (Author's abstract). Record #5816
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70660-3_5
ER  -