Iceland / Anna María Hauksdóttir & Steinunn Gestsdóttir -- England / Elizabeth Donovan -- Portugal / Melanie T. Santos & Andrea E. Mercurio -- Italy / Scott Borrelli & Tommaso Palumbo -- Germany / Elisabeth Leembruggen-Kallberg, Silke Rupprecht, & Diane Cadmus -- Russia / Anna Fastenko & Irini Timofeeva -- Greece / Georgia Stathopoulou -- Turkey / Alev Yalçinkaya -- Saudi Arabia / Majed A. Ashy -- Israel / Odelya Pagovich -- Lebanon / Laura Sheridan & Ghassan Ghorayeb -- Somalia / Natoschia Scruggs -- South Africa / Ronel Fourie -- India / Sonai Chawla -- Japan / Mizuho Arai -- Korea / Mikyung Jang & Mi-Sung Kim -- Taiwan / Huei-Ping Liu -- Republika ng pilipinas, the Philippines / Nyryan E-V. Nolido -- Australia / Doe West -- Nicaragua / Kevin Powell -- Brazil / Wilson Bezerra-Flanders -- Colombia / Sharon Abramzon -- Canada / Indrani J. Dookie -- United States / Kimberly A. Rapoza -- Human rights / Marcus D. Patterson.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
Ask men and women around the world to define and give examples of abuse in families and they give a wide range of responses. What aspects of cultural and historical experience contribute to differences and similarities in the perspectives on family violence held by citizens of different countries? This is one of the questions addressed in this book, in which definitions and examples of abuse from men and women from every continent and a very diverse set of backgrounds are considered. It also provides information on the extent to which family violence is a recognized problem in each country, an.
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Title
International perspectives on family violence and abuse.
International Standard Book Number
0805842462
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Cognition and culture.
Context effects (Psychology)
Family violence, Cross-cultural studies.
Interpersonal relations and culture.
Cross-Cultural Comparison.
Domestic Violence-- psychology.
Family Relations.
Cognition and culture.
Context effects (Psychology)
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS-- Abuse-- Domestic Partner Abuse.