Marital Violence In A Martial Town
Husbands And Wives In Early Modern Portsmouth, 1653-1781
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6079694 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jessica Warner (0000-0001-9679-5239, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health), Allyson M Lunny, Allyson Lunny |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 258-276 |
| Publication date | 2003-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Family History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0363-1990 • E-ISSN: 1552-5473 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0363199002250894 |
| PMID | 12751490 |
| OpenAlex | W2088038442 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 1 |
Sessions papers from early modern Portsmouth survive from 1653 on and are nearly continuous for eighty-five years, that is, from 1696 to 1781. They include 356 cases of wife beating in addition to 7,658 other assaults; as such, the town’s records allow for a comparison of the violent behavior of individual wife beaters both inside and outside of their marriages. These comparisons suggest that assaults on wives were more severe than assaults on strangers and acquaintances: not only were many wives assaulted on several occasions before lodging a complaint, the attacks themselves often resulted in greater injury, reflecting (1) a greater tendency to use potentially lethal weapons and (2) a differential in strength between most husbands and wives. The motives of individual wife beaters are less clear; what can be said with certainty is that wife beatings, like assaults in general, tended to rise whenever soldiers were demobilized and men were either unemployed or underemployed
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| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2015 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |