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This book uses various theoretical perspectives to summarize what is known about the multiple causes of men's violence against women, and stresses the importance of identifying men's risk factors. The preliminary multivariate model identifies four content areas: macrosocietal; biological; gender role socialization; and relational factors to explain men's violence against women. Within these four content areas the editors develop thirteen preliminary hypotheses about the causes of men's violence against women, which are critiqued by the contributors in the subsequent chapters.
Relational and Interactional Factors Explaining Men's Violence against Women
Introduction
The relational explanations for men's violence against women are considered from two different perspectives in this part. Steven Anderson and Margaret Schlossberg, in Chapter 9, reexamine family systems theories as a way to explain domestic violence. Although these theories have been critiqued harshly in the past, these authors argue that family systems theories have much to offer in understanding battering. They indicate that the importance of relational context and patterns of interaction over time has not been emphasized in the literature pertaining to battering. In addition to assessing strengths and limitations of systems perspectives, Anderson and Schlossberg examine the relational hypotheses of the O'Neil and Harway model ...
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