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To Have and To Hit: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON WIFE BEATING - Softcover

Counts, Dorothy Ayers; Brown, Judith; Campbell, Jacquelyn

 
9780252067976: To Have and To Hit: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON WIFE BEATING
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0252067975 ISBN 13: 9780252067976
Verlag: University of Illinois Press, 1999

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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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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 firsthand ethnographic data from 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.

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Verlag
University of Illinois Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0252067975
ISBN 13 
9780252067976
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
344
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Mare Nostrum Group B.V.
gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk

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4831 GR
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