Is There an "Anti-feminist Cycle of Violence"? The Effects of Anti-feminism According to Quebec Feminists

In the context of the Anti-feminist Attacks research, conducted in partnership with the R des centres de femmes du Quebec, this article documents anti-feminist actions and analyses their effects on the Quebec feminist movement. Inspired by the hypothesis of the R, according to which feminist reactions to anti-feminist violence are the same as women's reactions in a conjugal or post-conjugal violence context, the writer questions whether there is an "anti-feminist violence cycle". Using the theory of the cycle of conjugal violence and feminist studies on male violence against women, she examines the similarities between the effects of conjugal violence and the effects of anti-feminist violence, but also the limits this analogies considering the inherently collective dimensions of the anti-feminist attacks. Adapted from the source document.