Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Family Violence

by Klein, Renate

• ISBN13: 9780415158442
• ISBN10: 0415158443
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-03-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book presents a wide range of issues pertaining to conflict and violence in close, personal relationships. It crosses disciplinary and national boundaries by presenting the work of scholars in psychology, family studies, anthropology, women's studies, sociology and legal philosophy who come from Denmark, France, Germany, Britain, Greece, Poland, Spain and The Netherlands to provide a range of geographical, cultural and historical backgrounds.In association with the International Society for the Study of Personal Relationships.

Table of Contents

List of tables	vii	(2)
List of contributors	ix
1 Conflict and violence in the family: Cross-disciplinary issues	1	(16)
Renate C.A. Klein
Part I Dyadic dilemmata	17	(62)
2 Parent-child conflict, coercive family interaction, and physical child abuse	17	(24)
M. Angeles Cerezo
3 Making sense of family conflict: Influences on account making	41	(17)
Rosaleen Croghan
Dorothy Miell
4 Budding happiness: The relational dynamics of the abuse of girls and young women by their boyfriends	58	(21)
Renee Romkens
Sylvia Mastenbroek
Part II Extended family	79	(50)
5 Family conflict in France through the eyes of teenagers	79	(31)
Didier Le Gall
6 The discourse of philotimo and conflict resolution in an urban Greek family: A psychosocial approach	110	(19)
Vana Theodossopoulou-Papalois
Mara Theodossopoulou
Part III Cultures and communities	129	(66)
7 Gender stereotypes and beliefs about family violence in Poland	129	(24)
Anna Kwiatkowska
8 Explanations for wife beating in Greenland	153	(23)
Bo Wagner Sorensen
9 Violence without end? Some reflections on achievements, contradictions, and perspectives of the feminist movement in Germany	176	(19)
Carol Hagemann-White
Part IV Commentaries	195	(36)
10 Family violence: Leonardo, roots, rose-colored glasses, and other observations	195	(9)
Frank D. Fincham
11 Social responsibility and the production of knowledge about interpersonal violence	204	(8)
Rebekah Bradley
Keith Davis
12 Complexities of family violence and the need for belongingness	212	(8)
Ileana Arias
13 The status of family violence research in Europe	220	(11)
K. Daniel O'Leary
Name Index	231	(5)
Subject Index	236