| 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 note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other title |
Sanctions and sanctuary. |
| LCCN | 98058070 |
| ISBN | 0252024818 (cloth : acid-free paper) |
| ISBN | 0252067975 (pbk. : acid-free paper) |
