The making of social policy against family violence from colonial times to the present
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Pleck, Elizabeth H.
- Publish Year
- 1987
- Shelfmark
- VS 8 1987 - B
- Thesaurus
- geweld, huwelijken, overheidsbeleid, Verenigde Staten, historisch
- 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.