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416 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780252070792
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 01 August 2002
Description
In this powerful and moving history of family violence, historian Linda Gordon traces policies on child abuse and neglect, wife-beating, and incest from 1880 to 1960. Drawing on hundreds of case records from social agencies devoted to dealing with...
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416 pages • first pub 1988 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780252070792
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 01 August 2002
Description
In this powerful and moving history of family violence, historian Linda Gordon traces policies on child abuse and neglect, wife-beating, and incest from 1880 to 1960. Drawing on hundreds of case records from social agencies devoted to dealing with...