@article{ebc94f401e3b4039bbc3bd18aa17a244,
title = "Relationship Power, Control, and Dating Violence Among Latina Girls",
abstract = "We drew on the theory of gender and power and grounded theory methodology to explore how 18 Latina girls conceptualized power and control within their heterosexual dating relationships. Our findings indicate that boys/men used a number of strategies to control girls, including: regulating appearances and behaviors; cheating and threatening to cheat; and physical and sexual violence. Girls used a variety of strategies to resist these attempts to control them, including: lying, flirting, and cheating; reactive violence; breaking up; and maintaining emotional distance. Girls attempted to subvert boys' attempts to control them; however, these attempts were not always successful given the constraints of gender that adolescent females must negotiate.",
keywords = "Latinas, adolescent relationships, dating violence, relationship power",
author = "Vera Lopez and Meda Chesney-Lind and Julia Foley",
note = "Funding Information: Vera Lopez , PhD, is an associate professor in justice and social inquiry at Arizona State University, and received her PhD in educational psychology, an MA in program evaluation, and a BA in psychology, all from the University of Texas at Austin. She completed a clinical internship at the Institute for Juvenile Research at the University of Illinois-Chicago and a 2-year NIMH-funded postdoctoral research fellowship at ASU{\textquoteright}s Prevention Research Center. Her interests include delinquency, substance use, sexual risk taking, and prevention research. She has published in Family Relations, Journal of Youth and Adolescence, Feminist Criminology , and Journal of Early Adolescence . Funding Information: The authors disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by an ASU Subcontract to Vera Lopez from Columbia University, National Institute of Mental Health, R25 MH080665 ",
year = "2012",
month = jun,
doi = "10.1177/1077801212454112",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "18",
pages = "681--690",
journal = "Violence Against Women",
issn = "1077-8012",
publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",
number = "6",
}