TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2004//
TI  - “I Can Take Care of Myself”
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Hollander, Jocelyn A.
SP  - 205
EP  - 235
VL  - 10
IS  - 3
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077801203256202
ID  - ref1
ER  -