Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective / Edition 1

by David Levinson

Overview

Levinson's study of family violence breaks new ground by taking a global perspective of this social ill. He uses ethnographic work on 90 societies to analyse the incidence, causes and correlates of family violence. Through the use of both quantitative analysis and ethnographic description, he tests the efficacy of various current theories against world-wide family violence data. Among the author's more important conclusions are that women's economic equality and independence reduces family violence and that family violence is clearly correlated with more general violence in a society.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803930766
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/01/1989
Series:	Frontiers of Anthropology , #1
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.36(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword - H Russell Bernard
Introduction
Varieties of Family Violence
Family Violence and Other Types of Violence
Social Structure and Family Violence
Wife Beating and Sexual Inequality
Pulling the Pieces Together
Prevention and Control