To Have and to Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife BeatingDorothy Ayers Counts, Judith K. Brown, Jacquelyn Campbell 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. |
Contents
Definitions Assumptions Themes and Issues | 3 |
Does It Have an Evolutionary Origin? | 27 |
Men Women and Interpersonal Aggression in | 43 |
Kung Women Cope with | 53 |
Wife Beating in Kaliai Papua New Guinea | 73 |
Household Violence in a Yuat River Village | 87 |
Constraints toward | 100 |
Factors Relating to Infrequent Domestic Violence among the Nagovisi | 110 |
A Central American Case | 153 |
Domestic Violence in Ecuador | 168 |
The Proscription and Practice of Spouse | 187 |
Variations on a Theme | 203 |
Wife Abuse among IndoFijians | 216 |
A Middle Eastern Case Study | 234 |
Wife Battering within Cultural Contexts | 261 |
International Law and | 286 |
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References to this book
Violence in the City of Women: Police and Batterers in Bahia, Brazil Sarah Hautzinger Limited preview - 2007 |