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Battered Men And Our Changing Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence, Ashley Marie Perry
Battered Men And Our Changing Attitudes Toward Intimate Partner Violence, Ashley Marie Perry
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The Center for Disease Control (CDC) (2009) estimates that 4.8 million women are victims of intimate partner assault and rape every year. Receiving far less attention in the intimate partner violence literature, however, are studies of the 2.9 million male victims of this type of abuse (CDC 2009). Here I seek to explore this evolving issue of intimate partner violence, and determine to what extent the situations of male victims imitate the abundant body of literature on male violence against women. Using Google’s NGram word corpus (Michel et al. 2010), I examine important changes over time in the usage of …