NCJ Number
178592
Editor(s)
Renate C. A. Klein
Date Published
1998
Length
241 pages
Annotation
These 13 papers examine family conflicts and domestic assault and integrate research on conflict with research on violence, based on the perspectives of scholars in the areas of anthropology, psychology, sociology, and women's studies
Abstract
Topics include child abuse, family aggression, social representations of conflict and abuse, gender stereotypes, the role of the extended family, violence in dating relationships, and violence against women. Individual papers focus on parent-child conflict, the ways in which family conflict is construed by women who are trying to come to terms with either childhood abuse and disruption or maternal stress, and the relational dynamics of the abuse of young females by the males they are dating. Additional papers focus on family conflict in France as viewed by adolescents, a psychosocial approach to conflict resolution in an urban family in Greece, gender stereotypes and beliefs about family violence in Poland, explanations for wife beating in Greenland, and feminist perspectives on family violence in Germany. Further papers present commentaries on family violence and the status of family violence research in Europe. Tables, chapter reference lists, name index, and subject index