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

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252067975 ISBN 13 : 9780252067976

Editeur : 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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252067975
• ISBN 13: 9780252067976
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 344
• Éditeur: Counts Dorothy, Brown Judith K, Campbell Jacquelyn C
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible