by Elizabeth Pleck
University of Illinois Press, 2004
Cloth: 978-0-252-02912-7 | Paper: 978-0-252-07175-1
Library of Congress Classification HV6626.2.P58 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.82920973

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
 

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