To have and to hit : cultural perspectives on wife beating

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To have and to hit : cultural perspectives on wife beating

edited by Dorothy Ayers Counts, Judith K. Brown, and Jacquelyn C. Campbell

University of Illinois Press, c1999

2nd ed

  • cloth
  • : pbk

タイトル別名

Sanctions and sanctuary : cultural perspectives on the beating of wives

To have & to hit

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Originally published: Westview , 1992

Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

cloth ISBN 9780252024818

内容説明

This vitally important volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are prone to this pernicious form of violence. Based on first hand ethnographic data on more than a dozen societies, including a number in Oceania, this collection explores the social and cultural factors that work either to inhibit or to promote domestic violence against women. The volume also includes a study of abuse among non-human primates and a cross-cultural analysis of the legal aspects of wife beating. By presenting counter-examples from other cultures, contributors challenge Western assumptions about the factors leading to wife beating. Through a close examination of societies where wife beating is infrequent or absent, "To Have and To Hit" identifies the factors - economic, social, political, and cultural-that must be explored and transformed in order to combat this violence and eventually eliminate it.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780252067976

内容説明

This vitally important volume places the problem of wife beating in a broad cultural context in a search for strategies to reform societies, including our own, that are prone to this pernicious form of violence. Based on first hand ethnographic data on more than a dozen societies, including a number in Oceania, this collection explores the social and cultural factors that work either to inhibit or to promote domestic violence against women. The volume also includes a study of abuse among nonhuman primates and a cross-cultural analysis of the legal aspects of wife beating. By presenting counterexamples from other cultures, contributors challenge Western assumptions about the factors leading to wife beating. Through a close examination of societies where wife beating is infrequent or absent, To Have and To Hit identifies the factors-economic, social, political, and cultural-that must be explored and transformed in order to combat this violence and eventually eliminate it.

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