“…The researchers with a feminist position see IPV as violence against women by their male partners (e.g., Berns, 2001;Coker et al, 2000;Garcia-Moreno, 2002;Jewkes, 2002;Langford, 1998). The bigender nature of violence is not very well understood, and the gender symmetry findings are seen as contradicting feminist conceptions of IPV as a problem of gender and power (McHugh, 2005). Because there is increasing evidence to suggest that women commit as much or more IPV than do men (Archer, 2000;Harned, 2001;Straus, 2004;Williams et al, 2008), we need to acknowledge, investigate, and try to understand women's use of violence in their intimate relationships.…”