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.
Introduction ; I. THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REVOLUTION: PROMISE AND DISAPPOINTMENT ; 1. The Revolution Unfolds ; 2. The Revolution Stalled ; II. ENIGMAS OF ABUSE ; 3. The Proper Measure of Abuse ; 4. The Entrapment Enigma ; 5. Re-presenting Battered Women ; III. FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TO COERCIVE CONTROL ; 6. Up to Inequality ; 7. The Theory of Coercive Control ; 8. The Technology of Coercive Control ; IV. LIVING WITH COERCIVE CONTROL ; 9. When Battered Women Kill ; 10. For Love or Money ; 11. The Reasonableness of Battered Women ; Conclusion: Freedom is Not Free
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