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Women's Use of Force

Complexities and Challenges of Taking the Issue Seriously

University of Wisconsin'Madison

This article discusses the complexities, challenges, and urgency surrounding addressing women's use of force. 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 context 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.

Violence Against Women, Vol. 8, No. 11, 1390-1415 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/107780102762478055


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