Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life by Evan Stark

Coercive Control, a major update of the seminal first edition, contains painful first-hand accounts of psychological, sexual, financial, and physical abuse of women. Stark identifies the elements of coercive control and the harms they pose to women and their rights. New laws, policies, and approaches are proposed for supporting perpetrators and victims. The overall effect is uplifting because the numerous real life stories emphasize survival and endurance.

Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction

1. A New Law in the Land

Part I: The DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REVOLUTION

2. The Revolution Unfolds
3. The Revolution Stalls

Part II: THE THEORY AND THE MODEL

4. Up to Inequality
5. The Theory of Coercive Control
6. The Technology of Coercive Control

Part III: THE SPECTRUM OF COERCIVE CONTROL: MEASUREMENT AND PRACTICE

7. The Spectrum of Coercive Control
8 The Entrapment Enigma
9. Representing Battered Women

Part IV: COERCIVE CONTROL ON TRIAL

10. Donna Ballis: When Battered Women Kill
11. Theresa Craig: The "Known Unknown"
12. The Crown vs. Sally Challen: Entrapment and Liberty

Part V: CONCLUSION

13. The Coercive Control Context
14. Freedom is not Free

"This edition is crucial for women's studies, psychology, and social studies." -- Choice

Evan Stark is a sociologist, forensic social worker and an award-winning researcher with an international reputation for his legal advocacy and innovative policy work on interpersonal violence. With his wife, Anne Flitcraft, MD, Dr. Stark co-founded an early shelter for abused women, co-directed the pioneering Yale Trauma Studies showing the significance of domestic violence for women's health and co-chaired a U.S. Surgeon General's Task Force on Domestic Violence and Women's Health.

Oxford University Press

Pub Date: December 01, 2023

3.2" H x 8.9" L x 6.5" W

648 pages

Hardcover