TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Women's Use of Force
JO  - Violence against women
A1  - Worcester, Nancy
SP  - 1390
EP  - 1415
VL  - 8
IS  - 11
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 1077-8012
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107780102762478055
ID  - ref1
ER  -