Summary
David Peterson del Mar: What Trouble I have Seen - A History of Violence against Wives
The book summarizes the history of violence against women in Oregon. The richness of this historical research (and the collected results) will be extremely useful to scholars, researchers of gender studies, family life and violence against women. David Peterson del Mar's interdisciplinary study looks at the changes in American society that have affected the rate of violence. It explores the trends that led to a more significant resistance of women to this "timeless crime". It thus provides a historical framework for understanding domestic violence that shows how different times shape different ways of understanding violence.
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