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Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
Evan D. Stark
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Description for Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
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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.
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
703g
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195384048
SKU
V9780195384048
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About Evan D. Stark
Evan Stark is an award-winning researcher and has served as an expert in over l00 cases involving battered women and their children. He teaches at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration and Chairs the Department of Urban Health Administration at the UMDNJ School of Public Health. With Dr. Anne Flitcraft he is the coauthor of Women at Risk: Domestic Violence and Women's Health. He lives in Woodbridge, Connecticutt.
Reviews for Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
The mix of research, case material and the author's compelling perspective make the book very readable and engaging.
The Psychologist
Coercive Control is one of the most important books ever written about domestic violence and one that should be widely read by advocates, policymakers, and academics.
Domestic Violence Report
...a book of tremendous import to anyone working with the issue of domestic violence...Coercive Control is a sweeping, compelling and meticulously detailed argument...If, as Stark suggests, the domestic violence field is on the verge of a Kuhnian revolution, this book is the bugle blast.
Sex Roles
...a fascinating new look at how the very question of 'why women stay' has been wrongheaded from the start.
Salon.com
Regardless of whether readers agree or disagree with Stark's contentions or agree only in part, we guarantee they will not ever be bored. It is hoped that this book will be widely read and discussed and its major points incorporated into our daily work. In essence, this book should serve as a catalyst to reinvigorate the domestic violence movement.
Violence Against Women
The Psychologist
Coercive Control is one of the most important books ever written about domestic violence and one that should be widely read by advocates, policymakers, and academics.
Domestic Violence Report
...a book of tremendous import to anyone working with the issue of domestic violence...Coercive Control is a sweeping, compelling and meticulously detailed argument...If, as Stark suggests, the domestic violence field is on the verge of a Kuhnian revolution, this book is the bugle blast.
Sex Roles
...a fascinating new look at how the very question of 'why women stay' has been wrongheaded from the start.
Salon.com
Regardless of whether readers agree or disagree with Stark's contentions or agree only in part, we guarantee they will not ever be bored. It is hoped that this book will be widely read and discussed and its major points incorporated into our daily work. In essence, this book should serve as a catalyst to reinvigorate the domestic violence movement.
Violence Against Women