What is it about?

Interventions focus too much on persuading women to report or leave violent partners. Yet highly unequal social contexts often prevent them from doing this. We need more complex understandings of women's agency to inform more nuanced approaches.

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Why is it important?

We need to develop more complex understandings of marginalised women's agency to inform domestic violence interventions.

Perspectives

This is the Introduction to a special issue that draws on experiences in 20+ countries by a range of world-leading authors. The Introduction draws on this wide body of work to present a useful notion of distributed agency to inform analysis and action in this challenging field. This shows how women's ability to make decisions is nested within time, space and social networks, and across a continuum from survival to resistance.

Prof Catherine Campbell
London School of Economics and Political Science

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This page is a summary of: Conceptualising the agency of highly marginalised women: Intimate partner violence in extreme settings, Global Public Health, December 2015, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2015.1109694.
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