Sanctions and Sanctuary: Cultural Perspectives on the Beating of Wives

by Dorothy A Counts, Jacquelyn C Campbell, Judith K Brown, et al.

Book Overview

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

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367286556
• ISBN13: 9780367286552
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 268 Pages