Beating Wives

Over 30% women from 14 of 18 states, Union Territories that were surveyed justify men beating their wives under certain circumstances, while lesser percentage of men rationalised such behaviour, according to the recent National Family Health Survey.

Norman Early III pulled up to the Southern California house one night in September 2015 and sent a Snapchat message to the woman he went there to see, saying he was parked a short distance away.

Women of the sub-continent have more in common than their shared pre-partition history. At different moments in the evolution of policy frameworks of their respective nations, women of the sub-continent have found themselves marginalized. They are up against a different Line of Control than the one manned by armies. This is an LOC imposed by men wh...

When Pakistan's most populated province approved a law this year that gives women protection - and a potential escape - from abusive husbands, the country's powerful Council of Islamic Ideology strongly opposed the move.

In Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's stronghold of Maninagar in Ahmedabad, there is excitement as his challenger enters the one pocket that he has neglected. With drum beats, firecrackers and rose petals, the Congress workers pull out all the stops, knowing this is a rare occasion.

Sir Roger Moore claims his former wives used to beat him. The James Bond actor has been married four times but says Doorn van Steyn and Dorothy Squires were both physically abusive during his unions to them.

An Islamic marriage guide advising men on 'the best ways' to beat their wives has sparked outrage in Britain, especially among moderate Muslims who say that it encourages domestic violence. The book titled 'A Gift For Muslim Couple' tells husbands that they should beat their wives with "hand or stick or pull her by the ears", the Daily Mail reporte...

A man in Pakistan's Punjab province was publicly beaten up by his two wives, who claimed that he is planning marry for the fifth time. Mian Ishaq, a resident of Gujranwala city, was attending a friend's wedding reception with his third wife when his two other wives Mehvish and Uzma gate-crashed with dozens of relatives and beat him up before the gu...

A man in Bangladesh who kept his four wives in the dark about his multiple marriages was beaten to death, allegedly by all of them, a media report said on Wednesday.Yunus Bepari, 46, an autorickshaw driver, went to a village fair last Monday with two wives where he was confronted by his third wife. When the women exchanged information, they found t...

Over 30% women from 14 of 18 states, Union Territories that were surveyed justify men beating their wives under certain circumstances, while lesser percentage of men rationalised such behaviour, according to the recent National Family Health Survey.

Norman Early III pulled up to the Southern California house one night in September 2015 and sent a Snapchat message to the woman he went there to see, saying he was parked a short distance away.

Women of the sub-continent have more in common than their shared pre-partition history. At different moments in the evolution of policy frameworks of their respective nations, women of the sub-continent have found themselves marginalized. They are up against a different Line of Control than the one manned by armies. This is an LOC imposed by men wh...

When Pakistan's most populated province approved a law this year that gives women protection - and a potential escape - from abusive husbands, the country's powerful Council of Islamic Ideology strongly opposed the move.

In Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi's stronghold of Maninagar in Ahmedabad, there is excitement as his challenger enters the one pocket that he has neglected. With drum beats, firecrackers and rose petals, the Congress workers pull out all the stops, knowing this is a rare occasion.

Sir Roger Moore claims his former wives used to beat him. The James Bond actor has been married four times but says Doorn van Steyn and Dorothy Squires were both physically abusive during his unions to them.

An Islamic marriage guide advising men on 'the best ways' to beat their wives has sparked outrage in Britain, especially among moderate Muslims who say that it encourages domestic violence. The book titled 'A Gift For Muslim Couple' tells husbands that they should beat their wives with "hand or stick or pull her by the ears", the Daily Mail reporte...

A man in Pakistan's Punjab province was publicly beaten up by his two wives, who claimed that he is planning marry for the fifth time. Mian Ishaq, a resident of Gujranwala city, was attending a friend's wedding reception with his third wife when his two other wives Mehvish and Uzma gate-crashed with dozens of relatives and beat him up before the gu...

A man in Bangladesh who kept his four wives in the dark about his multiple marriages was beaten to death, allegedly by all of them, a media report said on Wednesday.Yunus Bepari, 46, an autorickshaw driver, went to a village fair last Monday with two wives where he was confronted by his third wife. When the women exchanged information, they found t...