“Gender Symmetry” in Domestic Violence

By Michael Kimmel. 2002

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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A Postmodern Approach to Women's Use of Violence: Developing Multiple and Complex Conceptualizations (2005, background): “Some researchers have argued that men and women’s motives for using violence differ, and to the extent that they do, men and women’s violence is not the same (Dasgupta, 1999; Emery & Lloyd, 1994; Follingstad, Wright, Lloyd, & Sebastian, 1991; Kimmel, 2002; Hamberger & Guse, 2002).”
The Influence of Gender Role Stereotypes, the Woman's Race, and Level of Provocation and Resistance on Domestic Violence Culpability Attributions (2005, background): “Although we believe that women are the victims of violence more frequently than men are for a variety of reasons (see Kimmel, 2002 ), we were interested in the effects of a woman’s provocation and resistance on culpability assignment for African American and European American couples in a domestic ”
Rape Prevention and Risk Reduction: Review of the Research Literature for Practitioners (2009, unknown): “, power and control, self-defense), who initiates the violence, or the physical and psychological outcomes associated with the violence (Kimmel 2002).”
Examining Symmetry in Intimate Partner Violence Among Young Adults Using Socio-Demographic Characteristics (2010, methodology): “Crime victimization data does include reports of rape, stalking, and other assaults that are not counted in studies using other measures of IPV, such as the widely-used Conflict Tactics Scale (Straus 1979) which is predominantly used in studies assessing sex symmetry (Anderson 2002; Kimmel 2002).”
Testing the cycle of violence hypothesis: child abuse and adolescent dating violence as predictors of intimate partner violence in young adulthood (2011, background): “Injuries are less likely to be caused by pushing, shoving and grabbing, the perpetration behaviors that are more common among women (Kimmel, 2002 ).”
Predictors of Perpetration of Verbal, Physical, and Sexual Violence: A Prospective Analysis of College Men (2007, methodology): “Lack of qualitative description of the contextual variables that precipitate interpersonal violence is a well referenced limitation of research using scales such as the Conflict Tactics Scale (see review by Kimmel, 2002 ).”
A Framework for Understanding Women's Use of Nonlethal Violence in Intimate Heterosexual Relationships (2002, background): “The main criticism of these studies centers on the argument that the scales do not allow any room for contexts and motives of intimate partner violence (for a comprehensive critique of the CTS, see DeKeseredy & Schwartz, 1998, and Kimmel, 2002 [this issue]).”
Gender differences in self-reports of intimate partner violence: A review (2011, background): “Some researchers have argued that CTS may have flaws that cause it to produce results that support gender symmetry in the prevalence of IPV (Giles, 2004; Kimmel, 2002; Straton, 1994).”