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Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life by Evan Stark (Paperback, 2009)

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Introduction I. The Revolution Unfolds 2. The Revolution Stalled II. ENIGMAS OF ABUSE 3. Up to Inequality 7. For Love or Money 11. It is hoped that this book will be widely read and discussed and its major points incorporated into our daily work.

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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, and FBI statistics, Stark details coercive strategies that men use to deny women their very personhood, from beeper games to food logs to micromanaging dress, speech, sexual activity, and work. Stark urges us to move beyond the injury model and focus on the real victimization that allows men to violate women's human rights with impunity. Provocative and brilliantly argued, Coercive Control reframes abuse as a liberty crime rather than a crime of assault and points the way to bringing real equality for women in line with their formal rights to personhood and citizenship, freedom and safety.