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References Examining Assaults by Women on Their Spouses or Male Partners: An Updated Annotated Bibliography

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This annotated bibliography describes 343 scholarly investigations (270 empirical studies and 73 reviews) demonstrating that women are as physically aggressive as men (or more) in their relationships with their spouses or opposite-sex partners. The aggregate sample size in the reviewed studies exceeds 440,850 people.

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The author thanks Diane Roe for her assistance in updating this bibliography.

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Correspondence to Martin S. Fiebert.

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Earlier versions of this paper appeared in Sexuality & Culture 1997, 1, 273–286, Sexuality & Culture 2004, 8(3–4), 140–177, and Sexuality & Culture 2010, 14(1), 49–91.

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Addendum: Assaults By Women on Their Male Partners Bibliographic References Sorted By Category

The Author-Year citation style is used here. See the main article for the full bibliographical reference. Note some studies are sorted in more than one category. Items bolded and underlined have been selected by the author, based on number of citations, historical relevance and personal impact, as reflecting particularly significant reviews/analyses and empirical studies.

National Surveys and Representative Sample Studies (63)

Ackard et al., 2002

Anderson, 2002

Bland & Orne, 1986

Brinkerhoff et al., 1988

Brown, 2004

Brush, 1990

Caetano et al., 2002

Capaldi et al., 2007

Carrado et al., 1996

Cascardi et al., 1999

Chang et al., 2009

Coker et al., 2000

Coleman & Straus, 1986

Cunradi et al.,1999

DeKeseredy & Schwartz, 1998

Eaton, et al., 2007

Ehrensaft et al., 2003

Ehrensaft et al., 2004

Ellison et al., 1999

Felson & Outlaw, 2007

Gass et al., 2011

George, 1999

Graham et al. 2004

Grande et al., (2003)

Grandin & Lupri, 1997

Halpern et al. 2001

Hampton et al., 1989

Headey et al., 1999

Herrenkohl, et al., 2007

Hoff, 1999

Kessler et al., 2001

Kim & Emery, 2003

Kwong et al., 1999

Laroche, 2005

Lipsky & Caetano, (2008)

McLeod, 1984

Merrill et al., 1998

Merrill et al., 2005

Miller et al., 2009

Mirrlees-Black, 1999

Moffitt et al., 2001

Morse, 1995

O’Leary et al. 2008

Olshen et al., 2007

Renner & Whitney, 2010

Rollins & Oheneba-Sakyi, 1990

Saewyc et al., 2009

Schafer et al., 1998

Slep & O’Leary 2005

Sommer, 1994

Sorenson et al., 1996

Stets & Henderson, 1991

Straus & Gelles, 1986

Straus & Gelles, 1990

Straus et al., 1981

Straus & Kaufman Kantor, 1994

Swahn et al. 2008

Tjaden & Thoennes, 2000

Vaeth et al., 2010

Whitaker et al., 2007

White & Chen, 2002

White & Koss, 1991

Williams & Frieze, 2005b

Wright & Benson, 2010

International Studies (61)

Amendt, 2008

Archer & Ray, 1989

Bland & Orne, 1986

Brown, 2004

Chan et al. 2008

Carrado et al. 1996

Claxton-Oldfield & Arsenault, 1999

Connolly et al., 2010

DeKeseredy & Schwartz, 1998

Doroszewiecz & Forbes, 2008

Dutton-Greene & Straus 2005

Ehrensaft et al., 2004

Feather. 1996

Fernandez-Fuertes & Fuertes, 2010

Gass et al., 2011

George, 1999

Graham-Kevan & Archer, 2005

Grande et al., (2003)

Grandin & Lupri, 1997

Halford et al., 2010

Headey et al., 1999

Hird, 2000

Jackson et al., 2000

Jankey, et al. 2011

Kalmuss, 1984

Kim & Cho, 1992

Kim & Emery, 2003

Kumar, 2012

Kwong et al., 1999

Laroche, 2005

Lewis & Sarantakos, 2001

Lottes & Weinberg, 1996

Lysova & Douglas, 2008

Magdol et al., 1997

Mirrless-Black, 1999

Moffitt, et al., 2001

Munoz-Rivas et al., 2007

Mwamwenda, 1998

Niaz et al., 2002

O’Leary et al., 2008

Pedersen & Thomas, 1992

Ramisetty-Mikler & Caetano, 2005

Romito & Grassi, 2007

Russell & Hulson, 1992

Sarkar et al., 2008

Sarantakos, 2004

Sharpe & Taylor, 1999

Sommer, 1994

Sommer et al., 1992

Steinmetz, 1981

Straus & Ramirez, 2007

Swaroop & Dsouza, 2007

Swart et al., 2002

Tang, 1994

Tang, 1999

Thorton et al., 2010

Williams et al., 2008

Winstok & Straus, 2011

Wolfe et al. 2001

Wong et al. 2008

Zacarias, et al., 2009

Dating Studies (123)

Ackard et al., 2002

Arias, et al., 1987

Arias & Johnson, 1989

Arriaga & Foshee, 2004

Baker & Stith, 2008

Bernard & Bernard 1983

Billingham et al., 1999

Bookwala, 2002

Bookwala et al., 1992

Burke et al., 1988

Callahan et al., 2003

Cascardi et al., 1999

Caulfield & Riggs, 1992

Cercone et al., 2005

Chan et al., 2008

Clark et al., 1994

Claxton-Oldfield & Arsenault 1999

Cogan & Ballinger III, 2006

Coker et al., 2000

Connolly, et al. 2010

Deal & Wampler, 1986

DeMaris, 1992

Doroszewiecz & Forbes, 2008

Dutton-Greene & Straus 2005

Eaton et al., 2007

Fernandez-Fuertes & Fuertes, 2010

Follingstad et al., 1991

Foo & Margolin, 1995

Forke et al., 2008

Foshee, 1996

Foshee et al., 2001

Fossos et al., 2007

Gover et al., 2008

Gray & Foshee, 1997

Gryl et al., 1991

Halpern et al., 2001

Harned, 2002

Harders et al., 1998

Hendy et al., 2003

Henton et al., 1983

Hines & Saudino 2003

Hird, 2000

Holt & Espelage, 2005

Holt & Gillespie, 2008

Jain et al., 2010

Jankey, et al. 2011

Jenkins & Aube, 2002

Jezl et al., 1996

Katz, Carino, & Hilton, 2002

Katz, Kuffel, & Coblentz, 2002

Kaura & Allan,. 2004

Kirschner & Fiebert, 2008

Lane & Gwartney-Gibbs, 1985

Laner & Thompson, 1982

LeJune & Follette, 1994

Licter & McCloskey, 2004.

Lo & Sporakowski, 1989

Lottes & Weinberg, 1996

Luthra & Gidycz, 2006

Lysova & Douglas, 2008

Magdol et al., 1997

Makepeace, 1986

Maker & deRoon-Cassinin 2007

Malik et al. 1997

Mason & Blankenship, 1987

Mathews, 1984

McCarthy, 2001

McKinney, 1986

Miller, et al., 2009

Miller, 2011

Milletich et al., 2010

Molidor & Tolman, 1998

Monson & Langhinrichsen-Rohling, 2002

Munoz-Rivas et al., 2007

Murphy, 1988

Nabors, 2010

O’Keefe, 1997

O’Keefe et al., 1986

O’Leary et al., 2008

Olshen et al., 2007

Pedersen & Thomas, 1992

Pekarek, 2008

Perry & Fromuth, 2005

Plass & Gessner, 1983

Prospero, 2009

Ramisetty-Mikler & Caetano, 2005

Riggs & O. Leary, 1996

Riggs, et al., 1990

Rouse, 1988

Ryan, 1998

Sack et al., 1982

Saewyc et al., 2009

Schnurr et al., 2010

Schwartz, et al., 1997

Sharpe & Taylor, 1999

Shook et al., 2000

Sigelman et al., 1984

Simon et al., 2009

Simonelli & Ingram, 1998

Simonelli et al., 2002

Spencer & Bryant, 2000

Stacy et al., 1994

Stets & Pirog-Good, 1987

Stets & Pirog-Good, 1989

Stets & Pirog-Good, 1990

Straus, 2001.

Straus, 2008

Straus & Medeiros, 2002

Straus & Mouradian, 1999

Straus & Ramirez, 2007

Swart et al., 2002

Symons et al., 1994

Thompson, 1990

Thompson, 1991

Waiping & Sporakowski, 1989

Watson et al., 2001

West & Rose, 2000

White & Humphrey, 1994

White & Koss, 1991

Williams & Frieze, 2005a

Williams et al. 2008

Wolfe & Foshee 2003

Wolfe et al., 2003

ANALYSES (31)

Davis, 2010

Dutton, 2006

Dutton & Nicholls, 2005

Farrell, 1999

Felson & Pare, 2005

Felson & Pare, 2007

Flynn, 1990

Gelles, 1994

Gelles, 2007

George, 2007

Goodyear-Smith & Laidlaw, 1999

Graham et al., 2004

Hines & Malley-Morrison, 2001

Holtzworth-Monroe, 2005

Jackson et al., 2002

Kelly, 2003

Langinrichsen-Rohling, 2005

Langinrichsen-Rohling, 2010

Leisring et al., 2003

Lewis & Fremouw, 2001

McNeely, et al., 2001

Moxon, 2011

Steinmetz, 1977-8

Steinmetz, 1980

Straus, 1998

Straus, 2006

Straus, 2007

Straus, 2009

Straus, 2012

White & Kowalski, 1994

Winstok & Straus, 2011

REVIEWS (41)

Archer, 2000.

Archer, 2002.

Archer, 2006.

Archer, 2013

Capaldi et al., 2004

Carlson, 1987

Carney et al., 2007

Coney & Mackey, 1999

Cook, 1997

Corry et al. 2002

Desmarais et al. 2012a

Desmarais et al. 2012b

Dowd, 2001

Dutton, 2007

Dutton et al., 2005

Dutton et al., 2009

Felson, 2002

Felson, 2006

Felson, (2008)

George, 1994

George, 2002

Graham-Kevan, 2007

Hamel, 2005

Hamel, 2007

Hamel, 2009

Lillja, 1995

Macchietto, 1992

Malloy et al., 2003

McNeely & Mann, 1990

McNeely & Robinson-Simpson, 1987

Nowinskia & Bowen, 2012

Nicholls & Dutton, 2001

Randle & Graham 2011

Straus, 2005

Straus, 2009b

Straus, 2011

Straus & Scott, 2008

Sugarman & Hotaling, 1989

Tyree & malone, 1991

West, 2008

Williams, et al., 2008

Ethnic and Inter-racial Partner Violence (20)

Ackard, 2002

Caetano et al., 2002

Carbone-Lopez, 2013

Chang et al., 2009

Cunradi et al., 1999

DeMaris, 1992

Ernst et al., 1997

Hampton et al., 1989

Kim & Cho, 1992

Kirschner & Fiebert, 2008

Malik et al., 1997

Mechem et al., 1999

Mercy & Saltzman, 1989

Leung & Cheung, 2008

O. Leary et al. 2008

Pekarek, 2008

Rouse, 1988

Sorenson & Telles, 1991

Sorenson et al., 1996

Sugihara & Warner, 2002

Case Studies (3)

Allen-Collinson, 2009

Lewis & Sarantakos, 2001

Migliacco, 2002

Books and Theses (12)

Amendt, 2008.

Cook, 1997

Dutton, 2006

Farrell, 1999

Gonzalez, 1997

Hamel, 2005

Lillja, 1995

McCarthy, 2001

Pekarek, 2008

Sommer, 1994

Stockdale, 1998

Straus et al., 1981

Other Empirical Studies (58)

Basile, 2004

Aizenman et al., 1988.

Bohannon et al., 1995

Brutz & Ingoldsby, 1984

Capaldi & Crosby, 1997.

Capaldi & Owen 2001

Cascardi et al., 1992

Chermack et al. 2001

Cui et al., 2005

Cross et al., (2011)

Doumas et al., 2008

Drumm et al., 2009

Ernst et al., 1997

Feather, 1999

Fergusson et al., 2005

Fiebert & Gonzalez, 1997

Fiebert, 1996

Giordano et al., 1999

Goldberg & Tomlanovich, 1984

Gonzalez, 1997

Hettrich & O’Leary, 2007

Hines et al., 2007

Hines & Douglas, 2010

Jouriles et al., 1985

Kan & Feinberg, 2010

Korman et al., 2008

Langinrichsen-Rohling & Vivian, 1994

Leisring, 2013

Malone et al., 1989

Margolin, 1987

Marshall & Rose, 1990

McNulty & Hellmuth (2008)

Mechem et al., 1999

Mihalic & Elliot, 1997

Milardo, 1998

Nisonoff & Bitman, 1979

O. Leary et al., 1989

O’Leary & Slep, 2006

Panuzio & DiLillo, 2010

Prospero, 2007

Reid et al., 2008

Ridley & Feldman, 2003

Rouse et al., 1988

Saenger, 1963

Schumacher & Leonard, 2005

Sorenson & Telles, 1991

Stets & Straus, 1990

Straus, 1980

Straus, 1995

Straus et al., 1996

Straus, et al., 1994

Sugihara & Warner, 2002

Szinovacz, 1983

Tang, 1994

Vasquez & Falcone, 1997

Vivian & Langhinrichsen-Rohling, 1996

Walton et al., 2009

Wekerle et al., 2009

Homicide Studies (8)

Breitman et al. 2004

Davis, 2010

Maxfield, 1989

Mercy & Saltzman, 1989

Meridith et al., 1986

Rosenfeld, 1997

Titterington & Harper, 2005

Wilson & Daley, 1992

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Fiebert, M.S. References Examining Assaults by Women on Their Spouses or Male Partners: An Updated Annotated Bibliography. Sexuality & Culture 18, 405–467 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-013-9194-1

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