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"I Can Take Care of Myself"

The Impact of Self-Defense Training on Women’s Lives

Jocelyn A. Hollander

University of Oregon

Feminist self-defense classes teach skills for preventing and responding to violence. However, self-defense training has many other positive effects on women’s lives—effects that themselvesmay reduce women’s risk of assault. In this article the author offers evidence of these effects drawn from a longitudinal study of self-defense training. In addition to increased confidence in potentially dangerous situations, self-defense students reported more comfortable interactions with strangers, acquaintances, and intimates; more positive feelings about their bodies; increased self-confidence; and transformed beliefs about women, men, and gender. The author suggests that self-defense classes are life transforming because they address three issues central to women’s lives: fear of sexual assault, self, and gender.

Key Words: fear • gender • resistance • self-defense

Violence Against Women, Vol. 10, No. 3, 205-235 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1077801203256202
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