Coercive Control: The Entrapment of Women in Personal Life
- ISBN-10
- 0195384040
- ISBN-13
- 9780195384048
- Series
- Coercive Control
- Category
- Family & Relationships
- Pages
- 452
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Evan Stark
Description
Drawing on cases, 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.
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