Nature and Culture in Intimate Partner Violence

This innovative book aims to further our understanding of violence in intimate relationships between men and women by combining research from psychology, cultural studies, and biology.

Silvia Bonino is professor emeritus of developmental psychology at the Department of psychology of the University of Turin (Italy), where she founded the Laboratory of developmental psychology. Her research focuses predominantly on aggressive behavior, positive sociality (empathy, cooperation, altruism) and risk behavior in adolescence.

Introduction 1. Neither brutes nor angels 2. First sex then love 3. Return to violence and inhumanity 4. Sex as violence 5. In house enemy Epilogue. Building the future Bibliographical references