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Family Violence in Cross-Cultural Perspective
Volume:
1
Series:
Frontiers of Anthropology
Frontiers of Anthropology
Other Titles in:
Interpersonal/Domestic Violence (General)
Interpersonal/Domestic Violence (General)
April 1989 | 152 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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.
H Russell Bernard
Foreword
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