To Have and to Hit Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating

Name: To Have and to Hit Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating
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ISBN: 9780252024818

ISBN-10: 0252024818

ISBN-13: 9780252024818

Edition: 2nd 1999

Authors: Dorothy Ayers Counts, Judith Brown, Jacquelyn Campbell

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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…

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List price: $44.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 10/6/1999
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 344
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Foreword to the Second Edition



Foreword to the First Edition



Preface




Introduction: Definitions, Assumptions, Themes, and Issues




Wife Abuse: Does It Have an Evolutionary Origin?




Fight! Fight!: Men, Women, and Interpersonal Aggression in an Australian Aboriginal Community




Room to Maneuver: !Kung Women Cope with Men




"All Men Do It:" Wife Beating in Kaliai, Papua New Guinea




Household Violence in a Yuat River Village




Why Wape Men Don't Beat Their Wives: Constraints toward Domestic Tranquility in a New Guinea Society




Factors Relating to Infrequent Domestic Violence among the Nagovisi




Nudging Her Harshly and Killing Him Softly: Displays of Disfranchisement on Ujelang Atoll




Spare the Rod and Spoil the Woman? Family Violence in Abelam Society




Preventing Violence against Women: A Central American Case




Men's Rights/Women's Wrongs: Domestic Violence in Ecuador




Like Teeth Biting Tongue: The Proscription and Practice of Spouse Abuse in Mayotte




Wife Beating in India: Variations on a Theme




Wife Abuse among Indo-Fijians




Wife Abuse and the Political System: A Middle Eastern Case Study




Wife Abuse in the Context of Development and Change: A Case from Taiwan




Sanctions and Sanctuary: Wife Battering within Cultural Contexts




"Women's Rights Are Human Rights": International Law and the Culture of Domestic Violence



Contributors


Index