On the other hand, Murray Straus, among others, argues that there are far more women using violence toward men than shelter data indicate. Straus, for example uses a wide sociological conceptual lens that makes visible violence by women against their spouses. Although he maintains that his analysis is also feminist, Kurz labels Straus's framework as 'irreconcilable with feminism. She believes the sociological lens distorts rather than clarifies, and that only the feminist lens correctly shows that we should be exclusively concerned with violence against women. In this section readers can begin to see why conceptual frameworks matter.
Men are at real risk of serious physical injury.
Murray A. Straus looks at controversies in DV research. Martin Fiebert examines reasons women give for assaulting men. JAMA emergency room study shows equal number of men, woman victims.