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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910798158803321
• Autore: Stark Evan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2007; ©2007
• ISBN: 0-19-028852-3; 0-19-972495-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (465 p.)
• Collana: Interpersonal Violence
• Disciplina: 362.82920973
• Soggetti: Wife abuse - United States; Abused women - United States; Psychological abuse - United States; Control (Psychology)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Introduction; I: The Domestic Violence Revolution: Promise and Disappointment; 1 The Revolution Unfolds; 2 The Revolution Stalled; II: The Enigmas of Abuse; 3 The Proper Measure of Abuse; 4 The Entrapment Enigma; 5 Representing 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 Special Reasonableness of Battered Women; Conclusion: Freedom Is Not Free; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; IJ; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: One of the most important books ever written on domestic violence, Coercive Control reframes spousal abuse as a liberty crime rather than a crime of assault. 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.