Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present
by Elizabeth Pleck
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Elizabeth Pleck'sDomestic Tyrannychronicles 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 show more introduction surveying the multinational and cultural themes now present in recent historical writing about family violence. show lessTags
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Elizabeth H. Pleck is professor emerita of history and human development and family studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has edited nine books about the history of American families. Her most recent book is Love of Freedom: Black Women in Colonial and Revolutionary New England.
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- Nonfiction, History, Sexuality and Gender Studies, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction
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- 306.8 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Social Behavior - Dating, Marriage, Divorce Marriage, partnerships, unions; family
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- HQ809.3 .U5 .P58 — Social sciences The family. Marriage, Women and Sexuality The Family. Marriage. Women The family. Marriage. Home
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