Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life
Evan Stark, "Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life "
English | ISBN: 0195384040 | 2009 | 452 pages | MOBI | 1123 KB
English | ISBN: 0195384040 | 2009 | 452 pages | MOBI | 1123 KB
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,
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