Table of Contents:
  • 1. Chapter :1 Contestation around the Istanbul Convention and the questions it raises
  • Chapter 2: The politics of violence against women: theoretical considerations
  • Chapter 3: Opposing the Istanbul Convention: actors, strategies and frames
  • Chapter 4: Resistance, resilience and resignation: women's rights advocates and their allies
  • Chapter 5: The reconfiguration of the policy field: how opponents appropriate VAW policies
  • Chapter 6: Implications of the attacks for feminism, the state and democracy.