The Tunisian government, which is deeply divided, especially along ideological lines, responded to growing concerns over increased violence against women during the Coronavirus pandemic by establishing a new domestic violence shelter and 24/7 hotline. This article asks: Why did the state respond to gender-based violence(gbv) concerns during the Coronavirus pandemic in Tunisia, despite ideological and political divisions? We argue that the state addressed some concerns around violence during the pandemic because combatting gbv has bipartisan support in Tunisia. Tunisian Islamist and secularist women’s rights organizations succeeded in building a bipartisan coalition of support on this issue because they worked either together in a short-lived coalition or in tandem with similar goals over the past decade during the democratic transition in Tunisia. Building on the existing coalition literature, we show that feminist coalition formation before a pandemic has implications for feminists’ success in times of crisis.

突尼斯政府在新冠病毒大流行期间存在严重分歧，尤其是在意识形态方面存在严重分歧，它通过建立新的家庭暴力庇护所和 24/7 全天候热线来回应人们对在冠状病毒大流行期间暴力侵害妇女行为日益增加的担忧。本文提出：尽管存在意识形态和政治分歧，为什么国家在突尼斯冠状病毒大流行期间对基于性别的暴力( gbv ) 的担忧做出回应？我们认为，该州解决了在大流行期间对暴力的一些担忧，因为与gbv 作斗争在突尼斯得到两党支持。突尼斯伊斯兰主义和世俗主义妇女权利组织成功地在这个问题上建立了一个两党支持联盟，因为它们要么在一个短暂的联盟中合作，要么在突尼斯民主过渡的过去十年中与类似的目标齐头并进。在现有联盟文献的基础上，我们表明，大流行之前的女权主义联盟的形成对女权主义者在危机时期的成功具有影响。