Rethinking Gender and Violence: Agency, Heterogeneity, and Intersectionality

1. "victim precipitation"

1.1. Previously this expression denoted that the victim was in some way or another responsible for the crimes committed against him.

2. Battered Women as Survivors

2.1. The term gained popularity. Kelly's (1988) goal was to shift "the emphasis from seeing women as passive victims of sexual violence to seeing them as active survivors," because calling women victims ignores the ways in which women "resist, cope, and survive."

3. Tools to measure domestic violence do haven´t a multicultural application

3.1. Much of the literature that informs and feeds into the mainstream anti-violence movement in the United States is limited by the underrepresentation of women of color, low-income women, rural women, LGBTQ women, women with disabilities, and non-English speakers.

4. Woman as a potential being

4.1. Andrea Smith challenges advocates to organize beyond just creating anti-violence programs and to think about combating the broader social structures that support violence against women.