ABSTRACT
Resistance is a complicated word. In psychoanalysis it is usually pejorative, as "the name given to motivational forces operating against growth or change and in the direction of maintenance of the status quo" (Ghent, 1990, p. 110). In feminist theory it involves liberation. Resistance is bound by context to the psychological and social structures that are being resisted (Hoy, 2004), and not all forms of resistance are readily identified as such.
