Wife-beating

The Mishnah's mention of injuries inflicted on a woman by a man can refer to an assailant outside the family and to inadvertent assault, but the phrase surely includes a wife-beating husband, too.

The cycle came full circle with me when I became a wife-beating drug addict, too.

However, certain restrictions did exist, and the general trend in the young states was toward declaring wife-beating illegal.

As previously outlined, indicators related to perceptions of wife-beating aim to test women's attitudes towards gender roles and gender equality.

Violence Against Women Grossman states clearly that wife-beating occurred in the Middle Ages in all societal classes.