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Cultural Perspectives on Wife Beating
出版University of Illinois Press, 1999
主題Family & Relationships / Abuse / GeneralFamily & Relationships / Abuse / Domestic Partner AbuseSocial Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
ISBN02520679759780252067976
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=2emRKEVt8VYC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.