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domestic violence
(redirected from Battered husband)

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domestic violence
n.
Violence toward or physical abuse of one's spouse or domestic partner.
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Noun1.domestic violence - violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partnerdomestic violence - violence or physical abuse directed toward your spouse or domestic partner; usually violence by men against women
violence, force - an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists); "he may accomplish by craft in the long run what he cannot do by force and violence in the short one"


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MIRIAM STOPPARD Dear Miriam, I'm ashamed to admit I'm a battered husband.
There is also a lot of shame attached to being a battered husband.
In a sense it can be argued that the emergence of a cause (in this case, women's position in society) allied with the propaganda of oppression provided a vehicle for the expression of widespread collective female aggression, particularly utilising indirect and anonymous forms of aggression, which found its focus in the "the battered husband controversy" (see Straus, 1993).
 
 
 
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