To Have and To Hit - CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON WIFE BEATING (Paperback, 2 Rev Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	University of Illinois Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1999
First published:	September 1999
Editors:	Dorothy Counts • Judith K. Brown • Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	344
Edition:	2 Rev Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-252-06797-6
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Violence in society > Domestic violence
LSN:	0-252-06797-5
Barcode:	9780252067976

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