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A Typology of Women's Use of Violence in Intimate Relationships

David L. Snow

Yale University

Women's use of violence in intimate relationships is not well understood. This study examined women's violence in relation to their male partners'sviolence against them. The sample consisted of 108 women who had used physical violence with a male partner in the previous 6 months. Almost all the women experienced physical abuse from their male partners. Whereas the women in the sample used more emotional abuse and moderate physical violence than their partners, the women were more often victims of sexual violence, injury, and coercive control. Three types of relationships were identified: women as victims (34%), women as aggressors (12%), and mixed relationships (50%), which were of two subtypes'mixed-male coercive (32%) and mixed-female coercive (18%). The study illustrates that women's violence needs to be examined within the context of male violence and abuse. The implications of the findings are discussed for researchers and practitioners who work with domestically violent women.

Violence Against Women, Vol. 8, No. 3, 286-319 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/107780120200800302


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