Woman battering as marital act the construction of a violent marriage october 1994 publisher scandinavian university press isbn 82 00 21806 6 authors margareta hyden linkoping . Pdf on may 1 1995 donileen r loseke and others published woman battering as marital act the construction of a violent marriage find read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. In an interdisciplinary analysis margareta hyden highlights the nature of womens abuse the social organization of marriage gender relations and human nature itself in ways that go beyond the discourse of victims and survivors of violence hyden examines the act of woman battering from three distinct perspectives the male perpetrator the female victim and the couple engaged in the . Woman battering as marital act book read reviews from worlds largest community for readers in an interdisciplinary analysis margareta hyden highlight. In the search for answers margareta hyden through a series of interviews of twenty couples gained access to intimate accounts of marital violence from several perspectives the male perpettator the female victim and the couple engaged in the joint project of marriage woman battering as marital act presents a penetrating and disturbing picture of modern marital violence