Coercive Control
How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

In the documentary MAKERS -Women who made America Gloria Steinem said, "being beaten up by your husband, didn't have a name; it was just called "life" " referring to domestic violence. In this marvelous book, Evan Starks writes about how the feminist revolution has in fact got stalled. Starks contes......more

I expected this book to be about the mechanics of coercive control and how abusers execute it. But the first half was sort of about the history of women’s rights in the US and how intimate partner violence morphed from being viewed as a private family/household shame into a crime punishable by law.......more

Important arguments being made about coercive control, particularly how we should be paying more attention to how coercive control has become a means by which some men defend patriarchal privileges and continue to control women in an environment where violence against women is more tightly regulated......more

this book is excellent--it provides a sophisticated Foucaultian framework for domestic violence (DV) and is among the best of the DV texts; it is definitely not a relaxing book nor a great self-help book but in terms of research on this issue, he really understands the issue and doesn't fall into th......more

Just started Coercive Control by Evan Stark, doing my socio 222 essay on it.......more