Wife Battering

2000 ◽  
pp. 323-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Ann Dutton ◽  
Edward W. Gondolf
Keyword(s):  
Wife Battering

WIFE BATTERING FROM AN ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE AND MALAYSIAN LEGAL PROVISIONS

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasimah Hussin ◽  
Ramizah Wan Muhammad
Keyword(s):  
Corporal Punishment ◽  
Islamic Law ◽  
Physical Assault ◽  
Feminist Organizations ◽  
Islamic Perspective ◽  
Legal Provisions ◽  
Wife Battering

Wife battering is a ground for divorce in the Malaysian Shariah Courts. Some husbands claim that it is their prerogative right to discipline their wives by corporal punishment based on their superficial understanding of the Qur’anic text 4:34 which seems to justify this argument. Some feminist organizations condemn this and allege that if physical assault is lawful in Islam, it leads to a woman’s persecution. This paper examines the issue of wife battering from both Islamic perspective and Malaysian legal provisions. It clarifies the misconception that exists regarding the above issue which is in fact, due to lack of understanding and prejudice against Islamic law.

Constructing Images of Deviance: A Look at State Intervention into the Problem of Wife-Battery

1983 ◽  
Vol 31 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 60-76
Author(s):  
Patricia A. Morgan
Keyword(s):  
Social Problem ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Structural Position ◽  
Wife Battering ◽  
The Social ◽  
Class Context ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Cost

Patricia Morgan's paper describes what happens when the state intervenes in the social problem of wife-battering. Her analysis refers to the United States, but there are clear implications for other countries, including Britain. The author argues that the state, through its social problem apparatus, manages the image of the problem by a process of bureaucratization, professionalization and individualization. This serves to narrow the definition of the problem, and to depoliticize it by removing it from its class context and viewing it in terms of individual pathology rather than structure. Thus refuges were initially run by small feminist collectives which had a dual objective of providing a service and promoting among the women an understanding of their structural position in society. The need for funds forced the groups to turn to the state for financial aid. This was given, but at the cost to the refuges of losing their political aims. Many refuges became larger, much more service-orientated and more diversified in providing therapy for the batterers and dealing with other problems such as alcoholism and drug abuse. This transformed not only the refuges but also the image of the problem of wife-battering.

Incidence of Wife-Battering in Male Psychiatric Hospital Patients: Are Special Treatment Programs Needed?

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 563-566
Author(s):  
Charles G. Watson ◽  
Angela M. Rosenberg ◽  
Norman Petrik
Keyword(s):  
Physical Abuse ◽  
Psychiatric Hospital ◽  
Medical Center ◽  
Treatment Programs ◽  
Veterans Administration ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wife Battering ◽  
Hospital Patients

The authors surveyed 137 male admissions to the St. Cloud (Minnesota) Veterans Administration Medical Center to estimate the incidence of physical abuse toward wives/partners. Among those 101 who had lived with a woman, physical abuse was reported in 54 cases. However, the violence was judged “serious” by half or more of a panel of judges in only 23 of those cases. Moreover, serious violence within the previous year was reported by only 6 of these men. Since violence rated as serious by half or more of the judges and occurring within the past year was reported in only 4% of the sample, it appears that the need for special treatment programs for batterers is probably limited to a small minority of male psychiatric hospital patients.

scholarly journals THE SOCIOLOGY OF BATTERED WOMEN

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Babita Tewar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Battered Women ◽  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Economic Power ◽  
Urban Background ◽  
Wife Battering ◽  
Sociological Literature ◽  
Indian Perspective

This paper undertakes to examine the hitherto neglected but nevertheless important area of Research , the Sociology of Battered Women. As there are very few researches in Sociological Literature in this area, particularly from the Indian perspective, hence a study in this direction in Kanpur City was carried out. The analysis reveals the diverse factors which lead to wife battering such as the age, religion, caste, educational background, rural or urban background, childbearing, sex, dowry, male child, economic status, dominance of in-laws, etc. The study explores that despite the various empowerment and emancipation strategies adopted by the different sectors of society for women , the ghastly reality still persists that whatsoever be the religion, caste, background of the women, they are being tortured and battered even today. The basic causes behind this being the prevalence of male domination & patriarchal systems, gender discrimination, social dependency and unequal power relations. This social devil can be eliminated only and only after the women gain political and economic power.

Historical Struggle

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqui True
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Marital Rape ◽  
Wife Battering ◽  
Women And Girls

How did VAWG first gain recognition? Violence against women and girls—from marital rape and wife battering to sexual abuse and harassment—has largely been hidden in recorded history, though the problem extends back well beyond our mothers’ and grandmothers’ generations. Similarly, the struggle against this...

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