Buch
Sammelband
To have and to hit : cultural perspectives on wife beating
Herausgegeben von:
Counts, Dorothy A.
Urbana [u. a.]:
Univ. of Illinois Press
,
1999
,
315 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Counts, Dorothy A. |
| Ausgabe: | 2. ed. |
| Jahr: | 1999 |
| Maße: | 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0252024818 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| 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: 1. Introduction: Definitions, Assumptions, Themnes, and Issues - Judith K. Brown 2. Wife Abuse: Does It Have an Evolutionary Origin? - Karen Keijo Tracy and Charles B. Crawford 3. Fight! Fight!: Men, Women, and Interpersonal Aggression in an Australian Aboriginal Community - Victoria K. Burbank 4. Room to Maneuver: !Kung Women Cope with Men - Patricia Draper 5. "All Men Do It:" Wife Beating in Kaliai, Papua New Guinea - Dorothy Ayers Counts 6. Household Violence in a Yuat River Village - Nancy McDowell 7. Why Wape Men Don't Beat Their Wives: Constraints toward Domestic Tranquility in a New Guinea Society - William E. Mitchell 8. Factors Relating to Infrequent Domestic Violence among the Nagovisi - Jill Nash 9. Nudging Her Harshly and Killing Him Softly: Displays of Disfranchisement on Ujelang Atoll - Laurence Marshall Carucci 10. Spare the Rod and Spoil the Woman? Family Violence in Abelam Society - Richard Scaglion 11. Preventing Violence against Women: A Central American Case - Virginia Kerns 12. Men's Rights/Women's Wrongs: Domestic Violence in Ecuador - Lauris McKee 13. Like Teeth Biting Tongue: The Proscription and Practice of Spouse Abuse in Mayotte - Michael Lambek 14. Wife Beating in India: Variations on a Theme - Barbara Diane Miller 15. Wife Abuse among Indo-Fijians - Shireen Lateef 16. Wife Abuse and the Political System: A Middle Eastern Case Study - Mary Elaine Hegland 17. Wife Abuse in the Context of Development and Change: A Case from Taiwan - Rita S. Gallin 18. Sanctions and Sanctuary: Wife Battering within Cultural Contexts - Jacquelyn C. Campbell 19. "Women's Rights Are Human Rights": International Law and the Culture of Domestic Violence | |
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