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== Further reading == * {{cite web |last1=Adams |first1=Cecil |title=Does 'rule of thumb' refer to an old law permitting wife beating? |url=https://www.straightdope.com/21343678/does-rule-of-thumb-refer-to-an-old-law-permitting-wife-beating |website=The Straight Dope |date=12 May 2000}} * {{cite news |last=Clements |first=Warren |title=No clear rule of thumb |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/no-clear-rule-of-thumb/article752047/ |work=The Globe and Mail |date=30 July 2003 |page=R2 |issn=0319-0714 |location=Toronto |url-access=limited}} * {{cite web |author1=Freyd, Jennifer |author2=Johnson, JQ |title=Commentary: Domestic Violence, Folk Etymologies, & 'Rule of Thumb' |url=http://dynamic.uoregon.edu/jjf/essays/ruleofthumb.html |publisher=Department of Psychology, University of Oregon |date=1998}} * {{cite web |last1=Quinion |first1=Michael |title=Rule of thumb |url=http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-rul1.htm |website=World Wide Words |date=13 November 1999}} * {{cite news |last1=Safire |first1=William |title=On Language; Misrule of Thumb |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/01/25/magazine/on-language-misrule-of-thumb.html |work=The New York Times Magazine |date=25 January 1998 |at=Section 6, pp. 12 ff |issn=0028-7822 |url-access=limited}} * {{cite web |last1=Straton |first1=Jack C. |title=North Carolina - Violence women |url=http://www.europrofem.org/contri/2_04_en/en-viol/28en_vio.htm |date=n.d. |via=European Men Profeminist Network}} Analysis of the phrase ''rule of thumb''. * {{cite report |title=Under the Rule of Thumb: Battered Women and the Administration of Justice |publisher=United States Commission on Civil Rights |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED213812 |format=PDF |date=January 1982 |via=[[ERIC]] |id=ED213812 |last1=Gerebenics |first1=Gail |last2=Others |first2=And }} * {{cite book |last1=Wallace |first1=Harvey |last2=Roberson |first2=Cliff |title=Family Violence: Legal, Medical, and Social Perspectives |date=2014 |publisher=Pearson Education |location=Boston, Mass. |isbn=978-0-205-91392-3 |pages=221β222 |edition=7th |url=https://archive.org/details/familyviolencele0000wall/page/221/mode/1up?view=theater |url-access=registration}}
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