What Causes Men's Violence Against Women?

Foreword - Joseph R Biden, Jr PART ONE: BOOK CONTEXT AND CRITIQUES OF O'NEIL AND HARWAY'S MULTIVARIATE MODEL EXPLAINING MEN'S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN What Causes Men to be Violent Against Women? The Unanswered and Controversial Question - Michele Harway and James M O'Neil Preliminary Multivariate Model Explaining the Causes of Men's Violence Against Women - James M O'Neil and Michele Harway Feminist Perspectives on Male Violence Against Women - Amy J Marin and Nancy Felipe Russo Critiquing O'Neil and Harway's Model Male Offenders - Richard J Gelles Our Understanding from the Data PART TWO: BIOLOGICAL, NEUROANATOMICAL, HORMONAL AND EVOLUTIONARY FACTORS EXPLAINING MEN'S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Biological Perspectives on Violence Against Women - Anthony F Greene The Evolutionary Origins of Male Violence Against Women - Louise B Silverstein PART THREE: MEN'S AND WOMEN'S GENDER-ROLE SOCIALIZATION AND GENDER-ROLE CONFLICT1 FACTORS EXPLAINING MEN'S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Men's Gender-Role Conflict, Defense Mechanisms and Self Protective Defensive Strategies - James M O'Neil and Rodney A Nadeau Explaining Men's Violence Against Women from a Gender-Role Socialization Perspective Women's Gender-Role Socialization, Gender-Role Conflict and Abuse - Roberta L Nutt A Review of Predisposing Factors PART FOUR: RELATIONAL AND INTERACTIONAL FACTORS EXPLAINING MEN'S VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN Systems Perspectives on Battering - Stephen A Anderson and Margaret C Schlossberg The Importance of Context and Pattern Inter-Gender Relational Dimensions of Violence Toward Women - Sandra Rigazio-DiGilio and A Stephan Lanza A Co-Constructive-Developmental Perspective PART FIVE: MACROSOCIETAL, RACIAL AND CULTURAL EXPLANATIONS OF VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN The Interaction between Societal Violence and Domestic Violence - Janis Sanchez-Hucles and Mary Ann Dutton Racial and Cultural Factors PART SIX: THEORETICAL PROPOSITIONS, REVISED MULTIVARIATE MODEL OF MEN'S RISK FACTORS, NEW HYPOTHESES AND PREVENTIVE RECOMMENDATIONS Revised Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Risk Factors for Violence Against Women - James M O'Neil and Michele Harway Theoretical Propositions, New Hypothoses and Proactive Recommendations