To have and to hit : cultural perspectives on wife beating /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
[1999]
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : definitions, assumptions, themes and issues / Judith K. Brown
- Wife abuse : does it have an evolutionary origin? / Karen Keljo Tracy and Charles B. Crawford
- Fight! fight! : men, women, and interpersonal aggression in an Australian aboriginal community / Victoria K. Burbank
- Room to maneuver : !Kung women cope with men / Patricia Draper
- "All men do it" : wife beating in Kaliai, Papua New Guinea / Dorothy Ayers Counts
- Household violence in a Yuat River village / Nancy McDowell
- Why Wape men don't beat their wives : constraints toward domestic tranquility in a New Guinea society / William E. Mitchell
- Factors relating to infrequent domestic violence among the Nagovisi / Jill Nash
- Nudging her harshly and killing him softly : displays of disfranchisement on Ujelang Atoll / Laurence Marshall Carucci
- Spare the rod and spoil the woman? : family violence in Abelam society / Richard Scaglion
- Preventing violence against women : a Central American case / Virginia Kerns
- Men's rights/women's wrongs : domestic violence in Ecuador / Lauris McKee
- Like teeth biting tongue : the proscription and practice of spouse abuse in Mayotte / Michael Lambek
- Wife beating in India : variations on a theme / Barbara Diane Miller
- Wife abuse among Indo-Fijians / Shirley Lateef
- Wife abuse and the political system : a Middle Eastern case study / Mary Elaine Hegland
- Wife abuse in the context of development and change : a case from Taiwan / Rita S. Gallin
- Sanctions and sanctuary : wife battering within cultural contexts / Jacquelyn C. Campbell
- "Women's rights are human rights" : international law and the culture of domestic violence / Jean G. Zorn.