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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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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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