Coercive control : the entrapment of women in personal life /
Stark, Evan,
Coercive control : the entrapment of women in personal life / Evan Stark. - xii, 452 pages - Interpersonal violence . - Interpersonal violence. .
Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on cases, Stark identifies the problems with our current approach to domestic violence, outlines the components of coercive control, and then uses this alternate framework to analyse the cases of battered women charged with criminal offenses directed at their abusers. 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780199724956 (ebook)
Wife abuse--United States.
Abused women--United States.
Psychological abuse--United States.
Control (Psychology)
Family and Relationships.
Child abuse
Psychology
Social welfare & social services
Social, group or collective psychology
IT & Communications law / Postal laws & regulations
Jurisprudence & general issues
Violence in society
Social work
Coercive control : the entrapment of women in personal life / Evan Stark. - xii, 452 pages - Interpersonal violence . - Interpersonal violence. .
Originally published: 2007.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Drawing on cases, Stark identifies the problems with our current approach to domestic violence, outlines the components of coercive control, and then uses this alternate framework to analyse the cases of battered women charged with criminal offenses directed at their abusers. 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Askews and Holts.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
9780199724956 (ebook)
Wife abuse--United States.
Abused women--United States.
Psychological abuse--United States.
Control (Psychology)
Family and Relationships.
Child abuse
Psychology
Social welfare & social services
Social, group or collective psychology
IT & Communications law / Postal laws & regulations
Jurisprudence & general issues
Violence in society
Social work