TY - JOUR PY - 2017// TI - Letter to the Editor JO - Violence against women A1 - German, Ted SP - NP4 EP - NP4 VL - 23 IS - 1 N2 -

The Straus “reanalysis” appears to dismiss or simply ignore the possibility of “violent resistance” among women, a concept that is illustrated in the Gondolf article. The resistance is something more than just self-defense. More broadly, it is a response to oppression—an unjust, burdensome, and often cruel exercise of power. The fact that women, and other groups in society, directly or indirectly experience oppression is not merely a feminist position but also a sociological realization. The …

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