A framework for understanding women's use of nonlethal violence in intimate heterosexual relationships

Violence Against Woman

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1364-1389

  Dasgupta, Shamita Das ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/107780102762478046     Document Type: Review

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