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9780252067976: To Have and to Hit: CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES on WIFE BEATING
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ISBN 10: 0252067975 ISBN 13: 9780252067976
Editorial: University of Illinois Press, 1999

Sinopsis

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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Editorial
University of Illinois Press
Año de publicación
1999
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0252067975
ISBN 13 
9780252067976
Encuadernación
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Número de edición
2
Número de páginas
344
Editor
Counts Dorothy, Brown Judith K, Campbell Jacquelyn C
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