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Author Stark, Evan.

Title Coercive control : how men entrap of women in personal life / Evan Stark
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description xii, 452 pages ; 24 cm
Series Interpersonal violence
Interpersonal violence (Oxford, England)
Contents Introduction -- The revolution unfolds -- The revolution stalled -- The proper measure of abuse -- The entrapment enigma -- Re-presenting battered women -- Up to inequality -- The theory of coercive control -- The technology of coercive control -- When battered women kill -- For love or money -- The special reasonableness of battered women -- Conclusion: Freedom is not free
Summary "Despite its great achievements, the domestic violence revolution is stalled, Evan Stark argues, a provocative conclusion he documents by showing that interventions have failed to improve women's long-term safety in relationships or to hold perpetrators accountable. Stark traces this failure to a startling paradox, that the singular focus on violence against women masks an even more devastating reality. In millions of abusive relationships, men use a largely unidentified form of subjugation that more closely resembles kidnapping or indentured servitude than assault. He calls this pattern "coercive control." Drawing on sources that range from FBI statistics and film to dozens of actual cases from his thirty years of experience as an award-winning researcher, advocate, and forensic expert, Stark shows in terrifying detail how men can use coercive control to extend their dominance over time and through social space in ways that subvert women's autonomy, isolate them, and infiltrate the most intimate corners of their lives. Against this backdrop, Stark analyzes the cases of three women tried for crimes committed in the context of abuse, showing that their reactions are only intelligible when they are reframed as victims of coercive control rather than as "battered wives."" "Elevating coercive control from a second-class misdemeanor to a human rights violation, Stark explains why law, policy, and advocacy must shift their focus to emphasize how coercive control jeopardizes women's freedom in everyday life. Fiercely argued and eminently readable, Stark's work is certain to breathe new life into the domestic violence revolution."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Wife abuse -- United States.
Abused women -- United States.
Psychological abuse -- United States.
Control (Psychology)
LC no. 2006025765
ISBN 9780195154276 (cloth : alk. paper)
0195154274 (cloth : alk. paper)