Reports of husband battering from an undergraduate sample in Umtata.
The objective of the present study was to explore the extent to which husband battering is practised among Xhosa-speaking women (n = 138) and men (n = 81) in Transkei. Analysis showed that husband battering is not an unknown sociological practice as a small number of women do in fact beat up their husbands. Contrary to conventional and cultural knowledge wife battering is not a one-way phenomenon although it is practised more widely.
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University of Transkei, Umtata, South Africa.
D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012650:Self Disclosure; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013019:South Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D013179:Spouse Abuse / Q000208:ethnology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*