@article{ref1,
title="Men and Women Fighting Side By Side: Examples From an English Town, 1653-1781",
journal="Journal of family history",
year="2008",
author="Graham, Kathryn and Riviere, Janine and Warner, Jessica",
volume="33",
number="2",
pages="156-172",
abstract="Just fewer than 5 percent (369 out of 7,590) of all reported assaults in early modern Portsmouth, England, had male as well as female defendants. The majority of these fights (250) ranged spouses against their mutual enemies, but a significant minority also included other household members. These fights are also distinguished by having an unusually high percentage of male victims (58 percent, compared to 48 percent for the records as a whole). Although the presence of men emboldened women to confront people whom they might ordinarily evade, it also had a dampening effect on their level of violence, which was lower, as a rule, than it was for women who fought on their own or alongside other women.<p />",
language="",
issn="0363-1990",
doi="10.1177/0363199007313611",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0363199007313611"
}