Attitudes toward wife beating among Palestinian women of reproductive age from three cities in West Bank

Journal of Interpersonal Violence

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 518-537

  Dhaher, Enas A ^a   Mikolajczyk, Rafael T ^a   Maxwell, Annette E ^b   Krämer, Alexander ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attitudes toward wife beating; Household decision making; Palestine; Right to refuse sex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARAB; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMAN; CULTURAL FACTOR; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE EAST; PARTNER VIOLENCE; PERCEPTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; ARABS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BATTERED WOMEN; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MARRIAGE; MIDDLE EAST; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIAL VALUES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPOUSE ABUSE; WOMEN'S HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 75949115672     PISSN: 08862605     EISSN: 15526518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0886260509334409     Document Type: Article

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