Preface

Section I. Introduction. 1. Common features of family abuse / David Finkelhor

Section II. Violence against wives. 2. The battered woman syndrome study / Lenore E. Walker

3. Violent men or violent husbands? Background factors and situational correlates / Jeffrey A. Fagan, Douglas K. Stewart, and Karen V. Hansen

4. Science and violence against wives / Laurie Wardell, Dair L. Gillespie, and Ann Leffler

Section III. Physical and sexual abuse of children. 5. Doing what comes naturally? An evolutionary perspective on child abuse / Robert L. Burgess and James Garbarino

6. Exploring intrafamilial child sexual abuse : a systems approach / Kathleen J. Tierney and David L. Corwin

Section IV. 7. Rape in marriage : a sociological view / David Finkelhor and Kersti Yllo

8. Battered wives' reactions to marital rape / Nancy M. Shields and Christine R. Hanneke

Section V. Toward a theory of intrafamily violence. 9. An exchange/social control theory / Richard J. Gelles

10. The goals of aggression / Leonard Berkowitz

11. Social psychological determinants / Richard J. Sebastian.

Section VI. An appraisal of current issues. When is the use of physical force "violent?" 12. Mutual combat and other family violence myths / Richard A. Berk, Sarah Fenstermaker Berk, Bonileen R. Loseke, and David Rauma

13. Ordinary violence, child abuse, and wife-beating : what do they have in common? / Murray A. Straus

14. A hit is a hit is a hit ... or is it? Approval and tolerance of the use of physical force by spouses / Cathy Stein Greenblat

Do we need new methods for studying wife abuse? 15. The context-specific approach / Russell P. Dobash and R. Emerson Dobash

16. Using a feminist approach in quantitative research : a case study / Kersti Yllo

Women and child abuse : is it an issue we avoid? 17. A feminist analysis of child abuse and neglect / Carolyn Kott Washburne

18. Maternal and paternal abuse of children : theoretical and research perspectives / Judith Martin

The intergenerational transmission of violence. 19. Perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of abuse / Ellen C. Herrenkohl, Roy C. Herrenkohl, and Lori J. Toedter

20. Social cognition and transmission of abuse / Sharon D. Herzberger

What factors shape professional and social responses? 21. Social knowledge, social policy, and the abuse of women : the case against patriarchal benevolence / Evan Stark and Anne Flitcraft

22. Theories, professional knowledge, and diagnosis of child abuse / Richard O'Toole, Patrick Turbett, and Claire Nalepka

23. Feminist, political, and economic determinants of wife abuse services / Debra S. Kalmuss and Murray A. Straus

About the editors and authors.