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Article: MEN, TOO, CAN BE VICTIMS OF INTIMATE VIOLENCE.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 4, 1994
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Byline: RICHARD J. GELLES
The truly bizarre case of Lorena and John Wayne Bobbit and the media circus that followed the story, from the search for John Bobbitt's penis to the television coverage of Lorena Bobbitt's trial, obscured an important question: Are there battered husbands?
Perhaps no issue in the study of intimate violence has generated so much controversy and heated debate as this question. Many feminists contend that it is clear women are overwhelmingly the victims of intimate violence and that there are no battered men. On the other hand, self-described battered husbands, men's-rights group members and some scholars maintain that there ...