What causes men's violence against women? /

This volume uses various theoretical perspectives to summarise what is known about the multiple causes of men's violence against women, and stresses the importance of identifying men's risk factors.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Harway, Michele, O'Neil, James M., Biden, Joseph R., Jr
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1999.
Series:Domestic Violence Ser.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • What causes men to be violent against women? The unanswered and controversial question / Michele Harway, James M. O'Neil
  • Preliminary multivariate model explaining the causes of men's violence against women / James M. O'Neil, Michele Harway
  • Feminist perspectives on male violence against women : critiquing O'Neil and Harway's model / Amy J. Marin, Nancy Felipe Russo
  • Male offenders : our understanding from the data / Richard J. Gelles
  • Biological perspectives on violence against women / Anthony F. Greene
  • The evolutionary origins of male violence against women / Louise B. Silverstein
  • Men's gender-role conflict, defense mechanisms, and self-protective defensive strategies : explaining men's violence against women from a gender-role socialization perspective / James M. O'Neil, Rodney A. Nadeau
  • Women's gender-role socialization, gender-role conflict, and abuse : a review of predisposing factors / Roberta L. Nutt
  • Systems perspectives on battering : the importance of context and pattern / Stephen A. Anderson, Margaret C. Schlossberg
  • Inter-gender relational dimensions of violence toward women : a co-constructive-developmental perspective / Sandra Rigazio-DiGilio, A. Stephen Lanza
  • The interaction between societal violence and domestic violence : racial and cultural factors / Janis Sanchez-Hucles, Mary Ann Dutton
  • Revised multivariate model explaining men's risk factors for violence against women : theoretical propositions, new hypotheses, and proactive recommendations / James M. O'Neil, Michele Harway.