To have and to hit : cultural perspectives on wife beating / edited by Dorothy Ayers Counts, Judith K. Brown, and Jacquelyn C. Campbell.

Other author Counts, Dorothy Ayers.
Other author Brown, Judith K.
Other author Campbell, Jacquelyn.
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoUrbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1999.
Descriptionxix, 315 pages : maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Wife abuse--Developing countries. --Cross-cultural studies.

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 / Shireen 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.
General note"The first edition of this book was published as Sanctions and sanctuary: cultural perspectives on the beating of wives (Westview Press, 1992)"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Other title Sanctions and sanctuary.
LCCN 98058070
ISBN0252024818 (cloth : acid-free paper)
ISBN0252067975 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

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Joyner General Stacks HV6626.23.D44 T6 1999 ✔ Available Place Hold