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List of contents
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
About the author
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.'
Summary
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.
