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.
Introduction 1I The Domestic Violence Revolution: Promise and Disappointment1 The Revolution Unfolds 212 The Revolution Stalled 50II The Enigmas of Abuse3 The Proper Measure of Abuse 834 The Entrapment Enigma 1125 Representing Battered Women 133III From Domestic Violence to Coercive Control6 Up to Inequality 1717 The Theory of Coercive Control 1988 The Technology of Coercive Control 228IV Living with Coercive Control9 When Battered Women Kill 29110 For Love or Money 31411 The special Reasonableness of Battered Women 339Conclusion: Freedom Is Not Free 362Notes 402Index 441
