The meanings and motives for women's use of violence in Canadian college dating relationships: Results from a national survey |
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| Authors: | Walter S. DeKeseredy Daniel G. Saunders Martin D. Schwartz Shahid Alvi |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Sociology and Anthropology , Carleton University , Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;2. School of Social Work , University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA;3. Department of Sociology and Anthropology , Ohio University , Athens, OH, 45701, USA E-mail: schwartz@ohiou.edu |
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| Abstract: | Data from a Canadian nationwide representative sample of 1,835 female college students were used to test a variety of propositions about women's use of violence in dating relationships. It has become progressively common in both Canada and the United States to argue that women are as violent as men. Although in a crude counting of violent acts these data confirm the contention that women commit a large number of such acts, a further investigation of the women's motives shows that a substantial amount of their violence was in self‐defense, or “fighting back.” The more these women had been victimized, whether physically or sexually, the more likely they were to report that they had used self‐defensive violence. The finding that a substantial amount of women's |
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