Coercive control : the entrapment of women in personal life /

Coercive control : the entrapment of women in personal life / Evan Stark.

"Despite its great achievements, the domestic violence revolution is stalled, Evan Stark argues, a provocative conclusion he documents by showing that interventions have failed to improve women's long-term safety in relationships or to hold perpetrators accountable. Stark traces this failu...

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Main Author: Stark, Evan.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.
Series:Interpersonal violence.
Subjects:
Wife abuse > United States.
Abused women > United States.
Psychological abuse > United States.
Control (Psychology)
Table of Contents:
  • The revolution unfolds
  • The revolution stalled
  • The proper measure of abuse
  • The entrapment enigma
  • Representing battered women
  • Up to inequality
  • The theory of coercive control
  • The technology of coercive control
  • When battered women kill
  • For love or money
  • The special reasonableness of battered women
  • Conclusion: Freedom is not free.

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