Netflix's Pamela, A Love Story overturns stereotypes about victims of intimate partner abuse

By Sarah Tatton, PhD Candidate and Associate Lecturer in Criminology, Sheffield Hallam University

Pamela Anderson’s Netflix documentary is worth watching for many reasons, but one of the greatest lessons it has to offer is what a victim-survivor of intimate partner abuse looks like: resilient, resourceful, eternally optimistic and compassionate.

Unlike most other victim-survivors, Anderson has been granted a platform for a narrative we still rarely hear in the mass media but which professionals in the field have known for…

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