Woman abuse : facts replacing myths /

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Author / Creator:Okun, Lewis, 1954-
Imprint:Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1986.
Description:1 online resource (xxi, 298 pages).
Language:English
Series:SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology
SUNY series in transpersonal and humanistic psychology.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11101474
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ISBN:0585063826
9780585063829
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289) and index.
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Other form:Print version: Okun, Lewis, 1954- Woman abuse. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1986 0887060773
Table of Contents:
  • List Of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Purpose of the Present Work
  • Author's Interest and Experience
  • Values Assumptions
  • Terminology
  • Outline of the Book
  • I. Review And Critique Of The Literature On Battering
  • 1. History
  • Woman Abuse in Historical Perspective
  • 2. The Empirical Literature
  • History
  • Problems with the Literature
  • Overall Trends
  • The Empirical Literature - Methods and Designs
  • Critique of the Empirical Literature
  • 3. Results Of Empirical Works
  • Incidence and Prevalence
  • Relative Incidence of Battered Wives and Battered Husbands
  • Age
  • Marital Status
  • Race
  • Religion
  • Socioeconomic Variables
  • Patterns in Woman Abuse
  • Sexual Issues in Woman Abuse
  • Not Separating, Separating, and Returning
  • Seeking Intervention
  • Assailants' Criminal Records
  • Military Service
  • Alcohol and Conjugal Violence
  • Child Abuse and Conjugal Abuse
  • Family Histories of Violence
  • Miscellaneous Quantitative Findings
  • Clinical Descriptions
  • 4. Theoretical Literature
  • Psychoanalytic Approaches
  • Learning Theory
  • Coercive Control Theory
  • Sociological Theories
  • Feminist Theories
  • Empirical and Theoretical Literature Compared
  • Universal Problems of the Theoretical Literature
  • Family Violence vs. Woman Abuse
  • The Intergenerational Transmission Hypothesis
  • 5. Coercive Control And Woman Abuse
  • Thought Reform and Woman Abuse
  • Coercive Control and Pimping
  • When Is a Family Not a Family?
  • II. The Current Study
  • 6. Method
  • Setting
  • Method
  • Limitations of the Present Study
  • Advantages of the Study
  • Hypotheses to Be Tested
  • Characteristics of the Shelter Sample
  • Characteristics of the Counseling Sample
  • 7. Comparisons Of The Samples To The General Population
  • Age Charateristics
  • Racial Characteristics
  • Number of Children
  • Premarital Pregnancy Rates
  • Employment Rates
  • Welfare Recipient Status
  • Marital Status
  • Childhood Exposure to Conjugally Violent Parents
  • Childhood Subjection to Child Abuse
  • Educational Level of Assailant Partners
  • Alcohol Abuse among Batterers
  • Military Experience among Batterers
  • 8. Concordance Between Victims' And Assailants' Reports
  • 9. Factors Relating To The Termination Or Resumption Of Cohabitation Between The Battered Woman And Batterer
  • Whether Partner Sought Batterers' Counseling
  • Age
  • Race
  • Number of Children and Age of Children
  • Economic Factors
  • Psychoactive Medications and Previous Counseling
  • Marital Status
  • Length of Relationship
  • Time Elapsed Since the Initial Conjugal Assault
  • Number of Previous Separations
  • Other Factors Regarding Previous Separations
  • Magnitude of Abuse: Number, Frequency, and Severity of Conjugal Assaults
  • Physical Retaliation in Self-defense by the Women
  • Conjugal Abuse of Shelter Residents' Mothers
  • Child Abuse Sustained by Shelter Residents
  • Concomitant Child Abuse by the Batterer
  • Distance Traveled by Battered Women to Shelter
  • Assailant's Level of Education
  • Assailant's Alcohol Abuse
  • Batterers' Criminal Record of Violent Offenses
  • 10. ADDITIONAL RESULTS
  • Factors Relating to the Level of Violence
  • Predictors of Batterers' Counseling Outcomes
  • 11. Summary And Discussion Of Results
  • Discussion
  • Indications for Future Research
  • Appendix A. Table Of Variables Collected From The Shelter Sample
  • Appendix B. The Shelter Intake Form
  • Appendix C. Table Of Variables Collected From The Batterers' Counseling Sample
  • Appendix D. The Batterers' Counseling Intake Form
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index