Domestic tyranny : the making of social policy against family violence from colonial times to the present

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Domestic tyranny : the making of social policy against family violence from colonial times to the present

Elizabeth Pleck

Oxford University Press, 1987

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The first history of family violence in the United States creates a broad portrait of America's attitude towards it over the years, considering not only how the problem has been defined, but also the institutional and legal remedies reformers hae devised to respond to it. Readership: those concerned with family problems, child abuse, violence against women etc. Feminists. Students of American social history.

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