[Russell]

این بخش از همان پژوهش هم تاثیرِ فرشتگان جنبش زنان (البته نه آنهایی که مورد تایید نیستند و فمینیست اشتباهی هستند) در انجام اینگونه پروژهش‌ها داشته اشاره شده:

The women’s movement brought initial attention to the problem of partner violence directed at women and to the need for funding to address that problem.6 Much of the initial research on IPV was conducted with severely abused women and supported the assumption that IPV is primarily perpetrated by men against women. Data is mounting, however, that suggests that IPV is often perpetrated by both men and women against their partner.7[SUP],[/SUP]8[SUP],[/SUP]9 It is also becoming recognized that perpetration of IPV by both partners within a relationship is fairly common. This phenomenon has been described with terms such as mutual violence, symmetrical violence, or reciprocal violence. Here we use the terms reciprocal and nonreciprocal to indicate IPV that is perpetrated by both partners (reciprocal) or 1 partner only (nonreciprocal) in a given relationship. Reciprocity of IPV does not necessarily mean that the frequency or the severity of the violence is equal or similar between partners.