This boldly original book explores the origins, meanings, and forms
of women's aggression. Drawing from in-depth interviews with sixty
women of different ages and ethnic and class backgrounds--police
officers, attorneys, substance abusers, homemakers, artists--Dana
Jack provides a rich account of how women explain (or explain away)
their own hidden or actual acts of hurt to others. With sensitivity
but without sentimentality, Jack gives readers a range of
compelling stories of how women channel, either positively or
destructively, their own powerful force and of how they resist and
retaliate in the face of others' aggression in a society that
expects women to be yielding, empathetic, and supportive.
Arguing that aggression arises from failures in relationships,
Jack portrays the many forms that women's aggression can take, from
veiled approaches used to resist, control, and take vengeance on
others, to aggression that reflects despair, to aggression that may
be a hopeful sign of new strength. Throughout the book, Jack shows
the positive sides of aggression as women struggle with internal
and external demons, reconnect with others, and create the courage
to stand their ground. This work broadens our understanding of
aggression as an interpersonal phenomenon rooted in societal
expectations, and offers exciting new approaches for exploring the
variations of this vexing human experience.
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