Marital violence: a feminist understanding of violence in intimate relations

Abstract

newline LViolence in homes both physical and mental is an everyday reality for innumerable newlinewomen Yet domestic violence the subject of this thesis although a topic that catches newlinepeople s attention and sympathies has not been a much researched topic in India The newlineinterest in the issue of domestic violence has rather come from an interventionist angle newlineand that too in the wake of dowry deaths and growing incidence of torture of brides newlinebrought to public attention in the 1980s by the media