Coercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life

by Evan Stark

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195384040
• ISBN13: 9780195384048
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.2"