What Trouble I Have Seen : : A History of Violence against Wives / / David Peterson Del Mar.
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'd 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- 1. "To Maintain His Authority": The Settlement Era
- 2. "When a Man Stoops to Strike a Woman": The 1890s
- 3. "His Face Is Weak and Sensual": Portland and the Whipping Post Law
- 4. "To Use His Muscle on Her": 1920-1945
- 5. "We Found That We Were Not Alone": The Years after World War II
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Quantitative Measures
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index