Cover

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Part I - Book Context and Critiques of O'Neil and Harway's Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Violence against Women

Chapter 1 - What Causes Men to be Violent against Women? The Unanswered and Controversial Question

Chapter 2 - Preliminary Multivariate Model Explaining the Causes of Men's Violence against Women

Chapter 3 - Feminist Perspectives on Male Violence against Women: Critiquing O'Neil and Harway's Model

Chapter 4 - Male Offenders: Our Understanding from the Data

Part II - Biological, Neuroanatomical, Hormonal, and Evolutionary Factors Explaining Men's Violence against Women

Chapter 5 - Biological Perspectives on Violence against Women

Chapter 6 - The Evolutionary Origins of Male Violence against Women

Part III - Men's and Women's Gender-Role Socialization and Gender-Role Conflict Factors Explaining Men's Violence against Women

Chapter 7 - Men's Gender-Role Conflict, Defense Mechanisms, and Self-Protective Defensive Strategies: Explaining Men's Violence against Women from a Gender-Role Socialization Perspective

Chapter 8 - Women's Gender-Role Socialization, Gender-Role Conflict, and Abuse: A Review of Predisposing Factors

Part IV - Relational and Interactional Factors Explaining Men's Violence Against Women

Chapter 9 - Systems Perspectives on Battering: The Importance of Context and Pattern

Chapter 10 - Inter-Gender Relational Dimensions of Violence toward Women: A Co-Constructive-Developmental Perspective

Part V - Macrosocietal, Racial and Cultural Explanations of Violence against Women

Chapter 11 - The Interaction between Societal Violence and Domestic Violence: Racial and Cultural Factors

Part VI - Theoretical Propositions, Revised Multivariate Model of Men's Risk Factors, New Hypotheses, and Preventive Recommendations

Chapter 12 - Revised Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Risk Factors for Violence Against Women: Theoretical Propositions, New Hypotheses, and Proactive Recommendations

References

Index

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