History Of Family Violence Research Articles

Prospective prediction of husband marital aggression within newlywed couples.

This study prospectively examined a social interactional model of husband marital aggression. Young couples were assessed at the time of their 1st marriage with respect to marital conflict styles, alcohol consumption, hostility, gender identity, perceived power inequity, and history of family violence. Couples were reassessed at their 1-year anniversary, and information concerning marital aggression was collected. Most of the constructs were prospectively related to husband aggression, but these relationships were largely mediated through marital conflict styles and husband alcohol consumption, which in turn were influenced by husband's hostility, gender identity, and perceived power inequity.

Book Review: Heroes of their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence

Book Review: Heroes of their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence

Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence

Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence

Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence. Linda Gordon

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Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence; Boston, 1880-1960.

Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence; Boston, 1880-1960.

Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880-1960

Journal Article Heroes of Their Own Lives: The Politics and History of Family Violence, Boston, 1880–1960. By Linda Gordon. (New York: Viking, 1988. xv + 383 pp. $24.95.) Get access Sylvia D. Hoffert Sylvia D. Hoffert Southwest Missouri State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 1, June 1989, Page 270, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908424 Published: 01 June 1989

Heroes of their own lives: the politics and history of family violence, Boston 1880-1960

In this unflinching history of family violence, the historian Linda Gordon traces policies on child abuse and neglect, wife-beating, and incest from 1880 to 1960. Drawing on hundreds of case records from social agencies devoted to dealing with the problem, Gordon chronicles the changing visibility of family violence as gender, family, and political ideologies shifted. From the discovery of family violence in the 1870s - when it was first identified as a social, rather than personal, problem - to the women's and civil rights movements of the twentieth century, Heroes of Their Own Lives illustrates how public perceptions of marriage, poverty, alcoholism, mental illness, and responsibility worked for and against the victims of family violence. Powerful, moving, and tightly argued, Heroes of Their Own Lives shows family violence to be an indicator of larger social problems. Examining its sources as well as its treatment, Gordon offers both an honest understanding of the problem and an unromantic view of the difficulties in stopping it.

The Politics of Child Sexual Abuse: Notes from American History

In the early 1970s, when a radical feminist consciousness pulled incest out of the closet, we thought we were engaged in an unprecedented discovery. In fact, charity volunteers and social workers a century earlier dealt with incest cases daily, understanding them to be a standard, expected part of the caseload of a child-protective agency such as a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. How are we to explain this historical amnesia? Like the suppression of so much women's history and feminist analysis, this hiatus was not created simply by the decline in feminism between 1920 and 1970, but by an active reinterpretation of child sexual abuse. I shudder when I think about what this meant: not only because of the incest victims rendered invisible and mute, but also because of its threat to us today, the threat that great achievements in consciousness-raising can be rolled back by powerful ideological tanks. My motives in writing a history of family violence were thus far from disinterested.1 Charity and social workers in the late nineteenth-century United States were familiar with child sexual abuse and knew that its most

Female alcoholics: IV. The relationship between family violence and outcome 3-10 years after treatment.

In a long-term follow-up study of 44 female alcoholics, the women's childhood history of family violence was found to be related to violence in partner relationship as an adult and to outcome of treatment. The number of violent relations experienced during childhood was significantly related to a repetitive pattern of violent partnerships after treatment, which added to a poor outcome. The small number of selected women studied limits the generalization of data. However, treatment intervention in violent partner relationships of female alcoholics probably would benefit long-term outcome.

Epidemiological studies of female prisoners. IV. Homosexual behavior.

The existence of homosexual behavior in female offenders is investigated not only as an adaptive process but as an established behavior existing prior to detention. Ninety-five prisoners from the Framingham Institution for Women were included: 26 were self-reported homosexuals, 42 were considered homosexuals by prision staff, and 27 were nonhomosexuals. Suicidal thoughts, suicidal attempts, psychiatric problems during menstruation, and a history of violent crimes against persons were characteristic of the homosexual group, whereas a history of crimes against self and property as well as history of alcoholism were common in the nonhomosexual group. Violet behavior together with suicidal attempts in homosexual female prisoners support the hypothesis that aggressive impulses may be expressed either externally or toward the self, the problem being one of impairment in control mechanisms. The findings also suppor the idea that violent behavior, as shown by this group of incarcerated homosexual females, is multidetermined. The factors that influence its appearance and expression could include a history of family violence, impulse control as children, neurological abnormality, sex role identification problems, biochemical abnormalities (manifested as menstrual irregularities), and impulse control problems as adults. A better understanding of human violence must be based on the recognition of the multidimensional nature of the problem using the tools and insights from many disciplines.