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008			110331s2007 eng
020			_a9780195154276
020			_a9780195384048 (paperback)
040			_aWSS _dAFV
082	0		_aTRO 362.8292 COE
100			_aStark, Evan _92146
245			_aCoercive control : _bthe entrapment of women in personal life _cStark, Evan
246			_aCoercive control : _bhow men entrap women in personal life
260			_aNew York _bOxford University Press _c2007
300			_a452 p.
365			_a00 _b0
500			_aRecommended reading
520			_a"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 womens long-term safety in relationships or to hold perpetrators accountable. Stark traces this failure to a startling paradox, that the singular focus on violence against women masks an even more devastating reality. In millions of abusive relationships, men use a largely unidentified form of subjugation that more closely resembles kidnapping or indentured servitude than assault. He calls this pattern coercive control. Drawing on sources that range from FBI statistics and film to dozens of actual cases from his thirty years of experience as an award-winning researcher, advocate, and forensic expert, Stark shows in terrifying detail how men can use coercive control to extend their dominance over time and through social space in ways that subvert womens autonomy, isolate them, and infiltrate the most intimate corners of their lives. Against this backdrop, Stark analyzes the cases of three women tried for crimes committed in the context of abuse, showing that their reactions are only intelligible when they are reframed as victims of coercive control rather than as battered wives. The story of physical and sexual violence against women has been told often. But this is the first book to show that most abused women who seek help do so because their rights and liberties have been jeopardized, not because they have been injured. The coercive control model Stark develops resolves three of the most perplexing challenges posed by abuse: why these relationships endure, why abused women develop a profile of problems seen among no other group of assault victims, and why the legal system has failed to win them justice. Elevating coercive control from a second-class misdemeanor to a human rights violation, Stark explains why law, policy, and advocacy must shift its focus to emphasize how coercive control jeopardizes womens freedom in everyday life. Fiercely argued and eminently readable, Starks work is certain to breathe new life into the domestic violence revolution."--PUBLISHER'S ABSTRACT
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650	2	7	_aRECOMMENDED READING _96431
650	2	7	_aABUSED WOMEN _925
650	2	7	_2FVC _aABUSIVE MEN _926
650	2	7	_aCOERCIVE CONTROL _95771
650	2	7	_2FVC _aDOMESTIC VIOLENCE _9203
650	2	7	_aEMOTIONAL ABUSE _9222
650	2	4	_aPSYCHOLOGICAL ABUSE _9472
650	2	7	_9431 _aINTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE _2FVC
942			_2ddc _cBOOK