Women Behaving Badly: Gender and Aggression in a Military Town, 1653?1781

Warner, Jessica; Graham, Kathryn; Adlaf, Edward M.

doi:10.1007/s11199-005-2673-6

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“…The contention that alcohol-related female aggression is nothing new can be supported in the literature, documenting such behaviour in both the recent and more distant past (e.g. Day et al, 2003, by interview andWarner et al, 2005, from court records, respectively). This would also appear to be the case in Glasgow nightclubs as the following excerpt from the Scotsman newspaper in 1916 illustrates: "…the complainer who stated that she resided in [Glasgow], and was the wife of a soldier now on active service said she was in a dancing hall...…”

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Gender differences in the choreography of alcohol-related violence: An observational study of aggression within licensed premises

Forsyth¹,

Lennox²

2009

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Aims: To examine patterns of gender involvement in violent incidents observed within licensed premises. Methods: Field observations were conducted in a sample of eight city centre nightclubs allowing alcohol-related aggressive incidents to be witnessed in their naturalistic setting. Results: Although most of those involved in aggressive incidents were males (108/171), many of the conflicts witnessed involved female combatants (36.8%). Additionally, female-to-female incidents were found to be as potentially injurious as those between males. Nevertheless, female-to-female and male-to-male conflicts did differ, in terms of the nature of the violence observed with, for example, female conflicts being less likely to involve an easily recognisable set pre-fight choreography. Conclusions: This research the challenges belief that female conflicts within licensed premises are less problematic than those involving males. These findings are discussed in terms of alcohol, masculinity and harm reduction.

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Gender differences in the choreography of alcohol-related violence: An observational study of aggression within licensed premises

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Lennox²

2009

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“…The contention that alcohol-related female aggression is nothing new can be supported in the literature, documenting such behaviour in both the recent and more distant past (e.g. Day, Gough, &McFadden, 2003, by interview andWarner, Graham, &Adlaf, 2005, from court records, respectively). This would also appear to be the case in Glasgow nightclubs as the following excerpt from the Scotsman newspaper in 1916 illustrates:…”

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Gender differences in the choreography of alcohol-related violence: An observational study of aggression within licensed premises

Forsyth

Lennox

2010

Journal of Substance Use

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Aims: To examine patterns of gender involvement in violent incidents observed within licensed premises. Methods: Field observations were conducted in a sample of eight city centre nightclubs allowing alcohol-related aggressive incidents to be witnessed in their naturalistic setting. Results: Although most of those involved in aggressive incidents were males (108/171), many of the conflicts witnessed involved female combatants (36.8%). Additionally, female-to-female incidents were found to be as potentially injurious as those between males. Nevertheless, female-to-female and male-tomale conflicts did differ, in terms of the nature of the violence observed with, for example, female conflicts being less likely to involve an easily recognizable set pre-fight choreography. Conclusions: This research the challenges belief that female conflicts within licensed premises are less problematic than those involving males. These findings are discussed in terms of alcohol, masculinity, and harm reduction.

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“…Understanding violence against women and violence perpetrated by women is challenging and there are often different and complex variables at work that are culturally sanctioned and part of everyday behaviors. Although this form of violence may go back many thousands of years, it has been difficult to establish in the archaeological record although a few studies are beginning to emerge (Warner et al, ; Martin et al, ).…”

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Bioarchaeological contributions to the study of violence

Martin

Harrod

2014

American J Phys Anthropol

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The bioarchaeological record has an abundance of scientific evidence based on skeletal indicators of trauma to argue for a long history of internal and external group conflict. However, the findings also suggest variability, nuance, and unevenness in the type, use, and meaning of violence across time and space and therefore defy generalizations or easy quantification. Documenting violence-related behaviors provides an overview of the often unique and sometimes patterned cultural use of violence. Violence (lethal and nonlethal) is often associated with social spheres of influence and power connected to daily life such as subsistence intensification, specialization, competition for scarce resources, climate, population density, territorial protection and presence of immigrants, to name just a few. By using fine-grained biocultural analyses that interrogate trauma data in particular places at particular times in reconstructed archaeological contexts, a more comprehensive view into the histories and experiences of violence emerges. Moreover, identifying culturally specific patterns related to age, sex, and social status provide an increasingly complex picture of early small-scale groups. Some forms of ritual violence also have restorative and regenerative aspects that strengthen community identity. Bioarchaeological data can shed light on the ways that violence becomes part of a given cultural landscape. Viewed in a biocultural context, evidence of osteological trauma provides rich insights into social relationships and the many ways that violence is embedded within those relation- This review provides a broad perspective on violence from studies looking at human skeletal remains (e.g., bioarchaeology, paleopathology, and forensic anthropology). Violence is a phenomenon that is found in varying expressions in all cultures stretching back to the Paleolithic (Bocquentin and Bar-Yosef, 2004;Estabrook and Frayer, 2014) and possibly farther (Ant on, 2003;Kimbel and Delezene, 2009). Having worked in the area of ancient violence for a number of years we approached this review as a way to offer new frameworks for thinking about violence in the past from the perspective of biological or physical anthropology, which like all other fields of study in anthropology, is scientific, comparative, and cross-cultural in approach.Many researchers use a variety of terms interchangeably such as violence, conflict, and aggression. Our own personal preference is to avoid using the term aggression for humans because it is often used in animal studies and does not imply a connection to culture or to meaning. This is an important distinction because aggression does not always translate into violent behavior. Definitions of violence often imply intentionality, motivation, and culturally defined meaning. What is considered violence in one culture may not be in others. Violence is often socially sanctioned and organized but aggression need not be. Violence can be individual or collective but aggression more often is analyzed at the indi...

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Women Behaving Badly: Gender and Aggression in a Military Town, 1653?1781

Cited by 25 publications

References 19 publications

Gender differences in the choreography of alcohol-related violence: An observational study of aggression within licensed premises

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Gender differences in the choreography of alcohol-related violence: An observational study of aggression within licensed premises

Bioarchaeological contributions to the study of violence

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