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- Title
Women's Use of Force.
- Authors
Worcester, Nancy
- Abstract
This article discusses the complexities, challenges, and urgency surrounding addressing women's use offorce. The author emphasizes that women's and girls' use of force needs to be analyzed using a framework that keeps power and control central to the definition of domestic violence and identifies that violence by men and women takes place within a social, historical, and economic con text in which men's and women's roles, opportunities, and social power differ. The article builds on an understanding of women's use of force in heterosexual relationships; however, a similar contextual analysis is also applied to women's use of force in teen dating relationships, lesbian relationships, and against children.
- Subjects
DOMESTIC violence; CRIMES against women
- Publication
Violence Against Women, 2002, Vol 8, Issue 11, p1390
- ISSN
1077-8012
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/107780102762478055