Male Peer Support of Wife Abuse

1991 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL D. SMITH
1993 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-413 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter S. Dekeseredy ◽  
Martin D. Schwartz

Author(s):  
Walter S. DeKeseredy ◽  
Patrik Olsson

It is estimated that there are over a million pornographic sites on the Internet, with as many as 10,000 added every week. In addition to having a major financial impact, adult pornography is strongly associated with various types of violence against women, especially sexual assault. Some studies have found that the contribution of pornography to woman abuse in dating, marriage, and during or after separation/divorce is related to male peer support, which refers to the attachments to male peers and the resources they provide that perpetuate and legitimate woman abuse. The main objective of this chapter is twofold: (1) to review the extant social scientific research on the relationship between violence against women, male peer support, and adult Internet pornography and (2) to suggest new directions in empirical work on the association between these three social problems.


Author(s):  
Walter S. Dekeseredy ◽  
Molly Dragiewicz ◽  
Martin D. Schwartz

This chapter reviews widely read and cited social scientific theories of separation and divorce violence against women. Explanations covered include the male proprietariness thesis, the challenge thesis, a feminist/male peer support model of separation and divorce sexual assault, a rural masculinity crisis/male peer support model of separation/divorce sexual assault, and the social and economic exclusion model of separation/divorce woman abuse in public housing.


2006 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Walter S. Dekeseredy ◽  
Shahid Alvi ◽  
Martin D. Schwartz

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