Medicine and Patriarchal Violence
- 1 January 1996
- book chapter
- Published by SAGE Publications
Abstract
By conservative estimate, 3 to 4 million women are assaulted by male partners each year in the United States and at least four times this number, between 12 and 15 million women, have been assaulted by their male partners in the past (Flynn, 1977; Straus, 1977–1978). In approximately 10% of these cases, the assault is speedily followed by effective protection or permanent estrangement from the aggressor. But there is mounting evidence that the vast majority of these beatings are part of an identifiable pattern of ongoing, systematic, and escalating abuse that often extends over a lifetime (Dobash & Dobash, 1977–1978; Flitcraft, 1977; Gelles, 1974; Pizzey, 1974). We refer to this pattern as woman battering. In the late 1960s, Parnas ...Keywords
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