To have and to hit
Subtitle: cultural perspectives on wife beating
By: edited by Dorothy Ayers Counts, Judith K. Brown, and Jacquelyn C. Campbell.
Contributors: Counts, Dorothy Ayers.; Brown, Judith K.; Campbell, Jacquelyn.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 315
Subjects: Wife abuse -- Developing countries -- Cross-cultural studies.
Other titles: Sanctions and sanctuary.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The first edition of this book was published as Sanctions and sanctuary: cultural perspectives on the beating of wives (Westview Press, 1992)"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : definitions, assumptions, themes, and issues / Judith K. Brown; title: Wife abuse : does it have an evolutionary origin? /  Karen Keljo Tracy and Charles B. Crawford; title: Fight! fight! : men, women, and interpersonal aggression in an Australian aboriginal community / Victoria K. Burbank; title: Room to maneuver : !Kung women cope with men / Patricia Draper; title: All men do it : wife beating in Kaliai, Papua New Guinea / Dorothy Ayers Counts; title: Household violence in a Yuat River village / Nancy McDowell; title: Why Wape men don't beat their wives : constraints toward domestic tranquility in a New Guinea society / William E. Mitchell; title: Factors relating to infrequent domestic violence among the Nagovisi / Jill Nash; title: Nudging her harshly and killing him softly : displays of disfranchisement on Ujelang Atoll / Laurence Marshall Carucci; title: Spare the rod and spoil the woman? : family violence in Abelam society / Richard Scaglion; title: Preventing violence against women : a Central American case / Virginia Kerns; title: Men's rights/women's wrongs : domestic violence in  Ecuador / Lauris McKee; title: Like teeth biting tongue : the proscription and practice of spouse abuse in Mayotte / Michael Lambek; title: Wife beating in India : variations on a theme / Barbara Diane Miller; title: Wife abuse among Indo-Fijians / Shireen Lateef; title: Wife abuse and the political system : a Middle Eastern case study / Mary Elaine Hegland; title: Wife abuse in the context of development and change : a case from Taiwan / Rita S. Gallin; title: Sanctions and sanctuary : wife battering within cultural contexts / Jacquelyn C. Campbell; title: Women's rights are human rights : international law and the culture of domestic violence / Jean G. Zorn.