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

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. Ackard, D. M., & Neumark-Sztainer, D. (2002). Date violence and date rape among adolescents: associations with disordered eating behaviors and psychological health. Child Abuse & Neglect, 26, 455–473. (A Minnesota statewide school sample of 81,247 students\40,301 boys, 40,946 girls [ in the 9th and 12th grade responded to the question of whether they ever experienced date related violence. Over 90 % of students reported never experiencing dating violence. In terms of grades, 3.3 % of 9th grade girls and 2.8 % of 9th grade boys reported experiencing violence, while 5.5 % of 12th grade girls and 2.3 % of 12th grade boys reported experiencing violence. In terms of ethnicity, American Indian boys \7.1 %[ and African American boys\7.2 %[reported experiencing higher rates of dating violence than American Indian girls \6.8 %[ and African American girls \3.6 %[). Aizenman, M., & Kelley, G. (1988). The incidence of violence and acquaintance rape in dating relationships among college men and women. Journal of College Student Development, 29, 305–311. (A sample of actively dating college students \204 women and 140 men [responded to a survey examining courtship violence. Authors report that there were no significant differences between the sexes in self reported perpetration of physical abuse.) 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. M. S. Fiebert (&) Department of Psychology, California State University, Long Beach, CA, USA e-mail: [email protected] 123 Sexuality & Culture (2014) 18:405–467 DOI 10.1007/s12119-013-9194-1