ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the roles women have had in resisting state-perpetrated violence against women as well as forming resistance movements against state crime in general. Resistance to different types of social behavior is not a new phenomenon and there exists considerable criminological inquiry that tackles this issue in varying ways. Consider that in the United States the women's suffrage movement that began a few decades after the American Civil War was a movement occupied largely by women who organized to change the status quo for women. When knowledge about something is not widely disseminated and therefore not acknowledged or known, little attention is paid to the state and the current representation or misrepresentation of the status quo. In Afghanistan, women often belong to clandestine literary groups where they meet under the pretense of sewing to write poetry. Landays are also used to undermine the social control that men and the oppressive state have over women.
