What trouble I have seen : a history of violence against wives /

What trouble I have seen : a history of violence against wives /

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Author / Creator:	Peterson del Mar, David, 1957-
Imprint:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 244 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Wife abuse -- Oregon -- History. Wife abuse. Oregon. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11198266

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ISBN:	9780674042087 0674042085 067495078X 9780674950788 9780674950788 0674950763 9780674950764
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-234) and index. Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 English. digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	It was 1869 and Sarah Moses, with "a very black eye," told her father: The world will never know what trouble I have seen. What she had seen was violence at the hands of her husband. Does the world know any more of such things today than it did in Sarah's time? Sarah, it so happens, lived in Oregon, that Edenic state on the Pacific Coast, and it is here that David Peterson del Mar centers his history of violence against wives. What causes such violence? Has it changed over time? How does it relate to the state of society as a whole? And how have women tried to stop it, resist it, escape it? These are the questions Peterson del Mar pursues, and the answers he finds are as fascinating as they are disturbing. Thousands of thickly documented divorce cases from the Oregon circuit courts let us listen to the voices of women and men, family members and neighbors, who often go unheard. These are the people who did not keep diaries or leave autobiographies, who sometimes could not write at all. Here they speak of a society that quietly condoned wife beating until the spread of an ethos of self-restraint in the late nineteenth century. And then, Peterson del Mar finds, the practice increased with a vengeance with the florescence of expressive individualism during the twentieth century.
Other form:	Print version: Peterson del Mar, David, 1957- What trouble I have seen. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1996 0674950763 9780674950764

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Prologue
"To Maintain His Authority": The Settlement Era
"When a Man Stoops to Strike a Woman": The 1890s
"His Face Is Weak and Sensual": Portland and the Whipping Post Law
"To Use His Muscle on Her": 1920-1945
"We Found That We Were Not Alone": The Years after World War II
Conclusion
Appendix: Quantitative Measures
Abbreviations
Notes
Index