Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life - Rilegato

Stark, Evan

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ISBN 10: 0195154274 ISBN 13: 9780195154276

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2007

Riassunto

The battle against domestic violence has focused primarily on incidents of extreme physical abuse and the resulting trauma to the victim. While there is a growing understanding of some forms of psychological abuse, such as stalking, there is less understanding of the pattern of abuse where physical attacks are combined with isolation, intimidation, and control. Stark argues that coercive control, which may not include any physical abuse, is actually the more prevalent and devastating form of domestic abuse, yet remains largely invisible to the helping professionals and has no legal standing. He contends that interventions are ineffective for a large number of battered women due to the gap between what these women experience and the singular emphasis on male violence and victim trauma. Drawing extensively on case studies, Stark identifies the problems with our current approach to domestic violence, outlines the components of coercive control, and then uses this alternate framework to analyse the cases of battered women charged with criminal offenses directed at their abusers. He presents the controversial notion that coercive control should be a legal defense for women who attack or kill their abusers.

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Recensione

This is a hopeful book...[it] is unique in the comprehensiveness of the critique, and in the depth and utility of [the author's] recommendations for a direction for the future...it is sure to have a major impact. (Sex Roles)

L'autore

Evan Stark is an award-winning researcher and has served as an expert in over l00 cases involving battered women and their children. He teaches at the Rutgers School of Public Affairs and Administration and Chairs the Department of Urban Health Administration at the U.M.D.N.J. School of Public Health. With Dr. Anne Flitcraft he is the coauthor of Women at Risk: Domestic Violence and Women's Health. He lives in Woodbridge, Connecticutt.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195154274
• ISBN 13: 9780195154276
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 464
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile