To Have and to Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0252067975 ISBN 13: 9780252067976

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 1999

Riassunto

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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• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0252067975
• ISBN 13: 9780252067976
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 315
• Redattore: Counts Dorothy Ayers, Brown Judith K., Campbell Jacquelyn C.
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