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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 a largely unidentified form of subjugation that more closely resembles kidnapping or indentured servitude than assault. He calls this pattern coercive control. Drawing on sources that range from FBI statistics and film to dozens of actual cases from his thirty years of experience as an award-winning researcher, advocate, and forensic expert, Stark shows in terrifying detail how men can use coercive control to extend their dominance over time and through social space in ways that subvert womens autonomy, isolate them, and infiltrate the most intimate corners of their lives. Against this backdrop, Stark analyzes the cases of three women tried for crimes committed in the context of abuse, showing that their reactions are only intelligible when they are reframed as victims of coercive control rather than as battered wives. The story of physical and sexual violence against women has been told often. But this is the first book to show that most abused women who seek help do so because their rights and liberties have been jeopardized, not because they have been injured. The coercive control model Stark develops resolves three of the most perplexing challenges posed by abuse: why these relationships endure, why abused women develop a profile of problems seen among no other group of assault victims, and why the legal system has failed to win them justice. Elevating coercive control from a second-class misdemeanor to a human rights violation, Stark explains why law, policy, and advocacy must shift its focus to emphasize how coercive control jeopardizes womens freedom in everyday life. Fiercely argued and eminently readable, Starks work is certain to breathe new life into the domestic violence revolution.

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• Introduction(p. 1)
• I The Domestic Violence Revolution: Promise and Disappointment
• 1 The Revolution Unfolds(p. 21)
• 2 The Revolution Stalled(p. 50)
• II The Enigmas of Abuse
• 3 The Proper Measure of Abuse(p. 83)
• 4 The Entrapment Enigma(p. 112)
• 5 Representing Battered Women(p. 133)
• III From Domestic Violence to Coercive Control
• 6 Up to Inequality(p. 171)
• 7 The Theory of Coercive Control(p. 198)
• 8 The Technology of Coercive Control(p. 228)
• IV Living With Coercive Control
• 9 When Battered Women Kill(p. 291)
• 10 For Love or Money(p. 314)
• 11 The Special Reasonableness of Battered Women(p. 339)
• Conclusion: Freedom Is Not Free(p. 362)
• Notes(p. 402)
• Index(p. 441)

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CHOICE Review

Stark's second edition updates the topic of coercive control that made the first edition (CH, Dec'08, 46-2380) a groundbreaking analysis of the topic. This edition reviews the major issues found in the first edition and updates the topic substantially. In part 1 Stark, a sociologist, describes how the feminist movement ignited awareness of women's abuse and led to the passage of the Violence Against Women Act (1994). He thoroughly describes the development of women's shelters, the changing legal response to more active prosecution, the battered woman's defense, and programs for batterers. In part 2 Stark describes the issues that still need to be addressed--underreporting of abuse, inconsistent prosecution, failure of treatment programs for batterers and protective orders, and the difficulty of prosecuting any case that does not exhibit extreme physical harm. The legal system does not recognize the harm caused by coercive control--verbal abuse, humiliation, control of finances and activities within the home--when the woman is outwardly active in the community and in her work. Even if they use domestic violence services and counseling, they often return home and the abuse escalates. Stark calls for continued activism, policy, and legislative action to more effectively address domestic abuse. This edition is crucial for women's studies, psychology, and social studies. Summing Up: Essential. Advanced undergraduates through faculty; professionals. --Deborah L. Loers, Akoan Consulting

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Evan Stark is an Associate Professor, School of Public Affairs, Rutgers University.