num_pages: 320
description: Elizabeth Pleck's Domestic Tyranny chronicles the rise and demise of legal, political, and medical campaigns against domestic violence from colonial times to the present. Based on in-depth research into court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, this book argues that the single most consistent barrier to reform against domestic violence has been the Family Ideal--that is, ideas about family privacy, conjugal and parental rights, and family stability. This edition features a new introduction surveying the multinational and cultural themes now present in recent historical writing about family violence.
language: English
title: Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present
titlecomplete: Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present
genres: History
ratings_count: 28
publisher: University of Illinois Press