Domestic Tyranny: The Making of American Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the PresentElizabeth Pleck's Domestic Tyranny chronicles the rise and demise of legal, political, and medical campaigns against domestic violence from colonial times to the present. Based on in-depth research into court records, newspaper accounts, and autobiographies, this book argues that the single most consistent barrier to reform against domestic violence has been the Family Ideal--that is, ideas about family privacy, conjugal and parental rights, and family stability. This edition features a new introduction surveying the multinational and cultural themes now present in recent historical writing about family violence. |
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Wicked Carriage | 17 |
Parental Tyranny | 34 |
The Drunkards Wife | 49 |
Protecting the Innocents | 69 |
The Pure Woman and the Brutish Man | 88 |
Bringing Back the Whipping Post | 108 |
REFORM THE PSYCHE AND THE STATE | 123 |
Psychiatry Takes Control | 145 |
The Pediatric Awakening | 164 |
Assault at Home | 182 |
Epilogue | 201 |
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