Beaten DownSelected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2003 The word violence conjures up images of terrorism, bombings, and lynchings. Beaten Down is concerned with more prosaic acts of physical forcea husband slapping his wife, a parent taking a birch branch to a child, a pair of drunken friends squaring off to establish who was the better man. David Peterson del Mar accounts for the social relations of power that lie behind this intimate form of