To Have and to Hit: Cultural Perspectives on Wife BeatingDorothy Ayers Counts, Judith K. Brown, Jacquelyn Campbell This 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 form of violence. |
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Definitions Assumptions Themes and Issues | 3 |
Does It Have an Evolutionary Origin? | 27 |
Men Women and Interpersonal Aggression in | 43 |
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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 |