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Coercive Control

How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

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Coercive Control

By: Evan Stark
Narrated by: William Sarris
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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.

©2007 Oxford University Press, Inc. (P)2020 Tantor Abuse Domestic Partner Abuse Dysfunctional Families Dysfunctional Relationships Parenting & Families Relationships Social Sciences Discrimination

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Evan Stark has such a clear understanding of the devastating effects of coercive control. He has saved so many women and children during his career. Keep up your amazing work Evan!

Evan Stark is a life saver

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