Items related to To Have and To Hit: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON WIFE BEATING

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

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

Synopsis

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.
 

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

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.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Publication date
1999
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0252067975
ISBN 13 
9780252067976
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
2
Number of pages
344
Editor
Counts Dorothy, Brown Judith K, Campbell Jacquelyn C