| 单词 | wife battering |
| 释义 | wife batteringwife batteringa colloquial term now also used in sociology to refer to the physical abuse of women by their husbands or partners. By feminist theorists, such physical abuse is held to be explicable, not only as the outcome of the greater physical strength of most males, but as an adjunct of a wider cultural climate that supports ‘male domination’. The incidence of wife battering is difficult to determine, but, in the UK, an increased willingness of women to report such actions, and of police and other authorities to take action against it, has meant its greatly increased visibility |
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