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female aggressive relationships within play  

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  • The most significant recent research done on female aggression has come from Martha Putallaz and Karen Bierman. The main theories are that girls are more socially aggressive and less physically aggressive than boys, that abused girls grow up to be abusive, and that girls have less opportunity to work out aggression as part of team-building because of the different ways in which boys and girls playing (and particularly playing sports) are viewed and socially accepted. [Source: Encyclopedia of Play in Today's Society; Female Aggressive Relationships within Play (Putallaz)]

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