Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

This book attempts to bridge the gap between how men subjugate women in personal life and the domestic violence model that guides the response. I compare the current approach to the life experiences of battered women, assess the effectiveness of interventions based on this approach, provide an alternative model of abuse, and show how adapting this alternative could improve our response. The domestic violence model was first made explicit by researchers. But it is also the cornerstone of an unprecedented revolution in how society treats partner violence. Critiquing the dominant framework entails deciphering where this revolution went wrong and how to put it back on course.

INTRODUCTION I. THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE REVOLUTION: PROMISE AND DISAPPOINTMENT 1. The Revolution Unfolds 2. The Revolution Stalled II. ENIGMAS OF ABUSE 3. The Proper Measure of Abuse 4. The Entrapment Enigma 5. Re-presenting Battered Women II. FROM DOMESTIC VIOLENCE TO COERCIVE CONTROL 6. Up to Inequality 7. The Theory of Coercive Control 8. The Technology of Coercive Control IV. LIVING WITH COERCIVE CONTROL 9. When Battered Women Kill 10. For Love or Money 11. The Reasonableness of Battered Women Conclusion: Freedom is Not Free

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Keywords: personal life, women, violence model, abuse