What Causes Men's Violence Against Women?

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.

Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Part I -- Book Context and Critiques of O'Neil and Harway's Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Violence against Women -- Chapter 1 -- What Causes Men to be Violent against Women? The Unanswered and Controversial Question -- Chapter 2 -- Preliminary Multivariate Model Explaining the Causes of Men's Violence against Women -- Chapter 3 -- Feminist Perspectives on Male Violence against Women: Critiquing O'Neil and Harway's Model -- Chapter 4 -- Male Offenders: Our Understanding from the Data.

Part II -- Biological, Neuroanatomical, Hormonal, and Evolutionary Factors Explaining Men's Violence against Women -- Chapter 5 -- Biological Perspectives on Violence against Women -- Chapter 6 -- The Evolutionary Origins of Male Violence against Women -- Part III -- Men's and Women's Gender-Role Socialization and Gender-Role Conflict Factors Explaining Men's Violence against Women -- Chapter 7 -- Men's Gender-Role Conflict, Defense Mechanisms, and Self-Protective Defensive Strategies: Explaining Men's Violence against Women from a Gender-Role Socialization Perspective.

Chapter 8 -- Women's Gender-Role Socialization, Gender-Role Conflict, and Abuse: …