Family violence, once considered a private problem, has become a matter of intense public concern. Many people believe that social concern about child abuse and wife beating began in the 1960s. Elizabeth Pleck's study, the first history of family violence in the United States, proves otherwise. Based on in-depth research using court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, Domestic Tyranny presents a broad portrait of America's attitudes towards family violence over time, considering not only the varying ...
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Family violence, once considered a private problem, has become a matter of intense public concern. Many people believe that social concern about child abuse and wife beating began in the 1960s. Elizabeth Pleck's study, the first history of family violence in the United States, proves otherwise. Based on in-depth research using court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, Domestic Tyranny presents a broad portrait of America's attitudes towards family violence over time, considering not only the varying definitions of the problem but also the institutional and legal remedies reformers have created to respond it. Pleck investigates the reasons for the ebb and flow of societal attention to the problem from the Puritans of New England, who devised a criminal code to punish wife beating, to Victorian efforts to prevent cruelty to children, to the battered woman's movement of our time.
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Pleck, Elizabeth., Oxford University Press, 1987, c1987, 2nd printing, illus. soft cover (trade size paperback), very near fine, 273 pp with appendices, notes & index, B&W illus., tall 8vo, ISBN: 0195059263, 'A comprehensive survey and judicious assessment of attempts to curtail the domestic abuse of women and children in America from the seventeenth century to the present'
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VG- Not ex-lib. Softcover in red wraps with George Cruikshank illustration to front, 8vo. 273pp. Index, endnotes, tables in appendices. B/W plates on paper. VG-to VG. Overall curl toward upper corners throughout, stronger with touch of card separation at tip of upper front wrap, all with no outright creases or folds. Milder curl at lower corners with touches of card separation at tips of wraps. Central wraps, colors, titles and figure all clean and bright; binding strong and square; pages clean and unmarked.
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