Coercive control : the entrapment of women in personal life / Evan Stark.
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TextSeries: Interpersonal violencePublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: xii, 452p. : ill. ; 24cmISBN: - 9780195384048 (alk. paper)
- 0195384040 (alk. paper)
- Coercive control : how men entrap women in personal life [Cover title]
- 362.8292 STA
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| Standard Loan | Moylish Library Main Collection | 362.8292 STA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39002100603019 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control breaks through entrenched views of physical abuse that have ultimately failed to protect women. Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters, shows how "domestic violence" is neither primarily domestic nor necessarily violent, but a pattern of controlling behaviors more akin to terrorism and hostage-taking. Drawing on court records, interviews, and FBI statistics, Stark details coercive strategies that men use to deny women their very personhood, from "beeper games" to food logs to micromanaging dress, speech, sexual activity, and work. Stark urges us to move beyond the injury model and focus on the real victimization that allows men to violate women's human rights with impunity. Provocative and brilliantly argued, Coercive Control reframes abuse as a liberty crime rather than a crime of assault and points the way to bringing "real" equality for women in line with their formal rights to personhood and citizenship, freedom and safety.
Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 402-440) and index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Introduction (p. 1)
- I The Domestic Violence Revolution: Promise and Disappointment
- 1 The Revolution Unfolds (p. 21)
- 2 The Revolution Stalled (p. 50)
- II The Enigmas of Abuse
- 3 The Proper Measure of Abuse (p. 83)
- 4 The Entrapment Enigma (p. 112)
- 5 Representing Battered Women (p. 133)
- III From Domestic Violence to Coercive Control
- 6 Up to Inequality (p. 171)
- 7 The Theory of Coercive Control (p. 198)
- 8 The Technology of Coercive Control (p. 228)
- IV Living with Coercive Control
- 9 When Battered Women Kill (p. 291)
- 10 For Love or Money (p. 314)
- 11 The special Reasonableness of Battered Women (p. 339)
- Conclusion: Freedom Is Not Free (p. 362)
- Notes (p. 402)
- Index (p. 441)