Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present

by Elizabeth H. Pleck

Book Overview

Family violence, once considered a private trouble, has become a matter of intense public concern. Many people think the problems of child abuse and wife-beating were "discovered" in the last two decades. This book, the first history of family violence in the United States, proves otherwise. Based on enormous research into court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, the book creates a broad portrait of America's attitudes toward family...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195041119
• ISBN13: 9780195041118
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 292 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.5"