Compliant Women, Constitutive Violence: Rethinking the VAWIP Counterfactual
The literature on violence against women in politics (VAWIP) has made substantial contributions to understanding how gender shapes political exclusion. Foundational work by Krook and Restrepo Sanín (2016; 2020) defined VAWIP as a form of hate crime and as systematic backlash against women’s entry into political life. T...