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What Causes Men's Violence Against Women?

This book uses various theoretical perspectives to summarize what is known about the multiple causes of men's violence against women, and stresses the importance of identifying men's risk factors. The preliminary multivariate model identifies four content areas: macrosocietal; biological;...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harway, Michele
Otros Autores: O'Neil, James M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1999.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Preface
  • Part I
  • Book Context and Critiques of O'Neil and Harway's Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Violence against Women
  • Chapter 1
  • What Causes Men to be Violent against Women? The Unanswered and Controversial Question
  • Chapter 2
  • Preliminary Multivariate Model Explaining the Causes of Men's Violence against Women
  • Chapter 3
  • Feminist Perspectives on Male Violence against Women: Critiquing O'Neil and Harway's Model
  • Chapter 4
  • Male Offenders: Our Understanding from the Data.
  • Part II
  • Biological, Neuroanatomical, Hormonal, and Evolutionary Factors Explaining Men's Violence against Women
  • Chapter 5
  • Biological Perspectives on Violence against Women
  • Chapter 6
  • The Evolutionary Origins of Male Violence against Women
  • Part III
  • Men's and Women's Gender-Role Socialization and Gender-Role Conflict Factors Explaining Men's Violence against Women
  • Chapter 7
  • Men's Gender-Role Conflict, Defense Mechanisms, and Self-Protective Defensive Strategies: Explaining Men's Violence against Women from a Gender-Role Socialization Perspective.
  • Chapter 8
  • Women's Gender-Role Socialization, Gender-Role Conflict, and Abuse: A Review of Predisposing Factors
  • Part IV
  • Relational and Interactional Factors Explaining Men's Violence Against Women
  • Chapter 9
  • Systems Perspectives on Battering: The Importance of Context and Pattern
  • Chapter 10
  • Inter-Gender Relational Dimensions of Violence toward Women: A Co-Constructive-Developmental Perspective
  • Part V
  • Macrosocietal, Racial and Cultural Explanations of Violence against Women.
  • Chapter 11
  • The Interaction between Societal Violence and Domestic Violence: Racial and Cultural Factors
  • Part VI
  • Theoretical Propositions, Revised Multivariate Model of Men's Risk Factors, New Hypotheses, and Preventive Recommendations
  • Chapter 12
  • Revised Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Risk Factors for Violence Against Women: Theoretical Propositions, New Hypotheses, and Proactive Recommendations
  • References
  • Index
  • About the Contributors.