Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

by Evan Stark

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195154274
• ISBN13: 9780195154276
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 9.3" x 6.4"