Defiant Resistance: Shattering the silence on violence against Indigenous women
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Defiant Resistance: Shattering the silence on violence against Indigenous women
By (Author) Marlene Longbottom
Aboriginal Studies Press
Aboriginal Studies Press
1st November 2025
Australia
Classifications
Non Fiction
Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity
Gender studies: women and girls
Domestic abuse
Physical Properties
Paperback
320
Width 152mm, Height 230mm
Description
Defiant Resistance is the culmination of many years of research into violence by Marlene Longbottom. Through interviews with Indigenous women survivors of violence, Marlene explores the challenges and tragedies and highlights opportunities to better support women.
Drawing on her years of working in community organisations, as well as lived experience, Marlene provides a voice to Indigenous women and through this, restores power to them.
In this groundbreaking book, we hear the voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women and gain a unique insight into the challenges faced and strength required to survive.
Marlene is motivated by wanting to guide people wanting to support Indigenous women experiencing violence and to make it clear that Indigenous women aren't complicit in the violence.
Marlene takes an unflinching look at the heartache and trauma caused by family and domestic violence; the systems and structures enabling it and the role of the wider community.
Defiant Resistance is a story of struggle, grief and love; a strident demand to be heard from all Indigenous women.
Author Bio
Dr Marlene Longbottom is a Yuin woman from the Roseby Park Mission (Jerrinja) located on the south coast of NSW. She is an Associate Professor at the Indigenous Education & Research Centre at James Cook University. With nearly 30 years of experience, Marlene has worked across New South Wales, the Torres Strait, and Far North Queensland in both human services and academia.
Marlene has developed and carried out community-based research and evaluation projects across urban, regional, and remote areas in New South Wales and Queensland. She specialises in researching services provided to Indigenous communities, with a focus in the past decade on trauma and violence within these communities.
Marlene has been an investigator on the ARC Centres of Excellence for Violence Against Women and was awarded the prestigious Discovery Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Award (DAATSIA).
Defiant Resistance is based on Marlene's decade-long research into violence and harm experienced by Indigenous women.
