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Family violence in cross cultural perspective / by David Levinson.
Penn Museum Library GN495.2 .L47 1989
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LIBRA GN495.2 .L47 1989
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levinson, David, 1947-
- Series:
- Frontiers of anthropology ; v. 1.
- Frontiers of anthropology ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Family violence--Cross-cultural studies.
- Family violence.
- Genre:
- Cross-cultural studies.
- Physical Description:
- 146 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1989, c1988.
- Summary:
- Levinson's study of family violence breaks new ground by taking a global perspective of this social ill. He uses ethnographic work on 90 societies to analyse the incidence, causes and correlates of family violence. Through the use of both quantitative analysis and ethnographic description, he tests the efficacy of various current theories against world-wide family violence data. Among the author's more important conclusions are that women's economic equality and independence reduces family violence and that family violence is clearly correlated with more general violence in a society.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0803930755 :
- 0803930763
- OCLC:
- 18351993
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