Sanctions And Sanctuary
Cultural Perspectives On The Beating Of Wives
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 2019
Book
Hardback
268 pages
978-0-367-28655-2 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together evidence from 15 Western and non-Western societies - ranging from hunter-gatherers to urban Americans - this book examines wife-beating from a worldwide perspective. Cross-cultural comparison aims to give a more accurate picture of cultural influences on wife-battering and to show the commonalities and differences of the phenomeno
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
690 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-28655-2 (9780367286552)
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Additional editions
Dorothy A. Counts | Judith K. Brown | Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Sanctions And Sanctuary
Cultural Perspectives On The Beating Of Wives
Book
12/2020
1st Edition
Routledge
€58.00
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Dorothy A. Counts | Judith K. Brown | Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Sanctions And Sanctuary
Cultural Perspectives On The Beating Of Wives
E-Book
05/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€59.49
Available for download
Dorothy A. Counts | Judith K. Brown | Jacquelyn C. Campbell
Sanctions And Sanctuary
Cultural Perspectives On The Beating Of Wives
E-Book
05/2019
1st Edition
Routledge
€59.49
Available for download
Persons
Dorothy Ayers Counts is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Waterloo, and has published and edited a wide variety of books, including an extensive work on aging in South Pacific societies that have no place for those who 'retire.'
Content
Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction: Definitions, Assumptions, Themes, and Issues -- Wife Abuse: Does It Have an Evolutionary Origin? -- Fight! Fight!: Men, Women, and Interpersonal Aggression in an Australian Aboriginal Community -- Room to Maneuver:!Kung Women Cope with Men -- "All Men Do It": Wife-Beating in Kaliai, Papua New Guinea -- Household Violence in a Yuat River Village -- Why Wape Men Don't Beat Their Wives: Constraints Toward Domestic Tranquility in a New Guinea Society -- Factors Relating to Infrequent Domestic Violence Among the Nagovisi -- Nudging Her Harshly and Killing Him Softly: Displays of Disenfranchisement on Ujelang Atoll -- Preventing Violence Against Women: A Central American Case -- Men's Rights/Women's Wrongs: Domestic Violence in Ecuador -- Like Teeth Biting Tongue: The Proscription and Practice of Spouse Abuse in Mayotte -- Wife-Beating in India: Variations on a Theme -- Wife Abuse Among Indo-Fijians1 -- Wife Abuse and the Political System: A Middle Eastern Case Study -- Wife Abuse in the Context of Development and Change: A Chinese (Taiwanese) Case -- Wife-Battering: Cultural Contexts Versus Western Social Sciences