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By: Rebecca,
on 6/18/2007
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Last Monday I featured an excerpt from Evan Stark’s new book Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life. It garnered some interesting conversation on the internet and so I thought I would round-up some of the sites you can look to for more interesting conversation and debate about domestic violence.
- Salon’s Broadsheet writes: “…the idea that it’s the victims who are to blame eclipses an ugly reality: Ending a violent relationship is dangerous, and sometimes women (realistically or not) don’t think they could survive it.”
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By: Rebecca,
on 6/11/2007
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Evan Stark is a founder of one of the first shelters for abused women in the US and author of Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life . His book, which we have excerpted below, looks at the domestic violence and why law, policy and advocacy must shift their focus to emphasize how coercive control jeopardizes women’s freedom in everyday life.
In 1979, psychiatrist Alexandra Symonds, published an unusually candid article. When her profession dealt with families “where the main disturbance was violence against the wife or sweetheart,” she observed, they focused on how the women provoked their husbands, or how the women were getting satisfaction in some obscure way by being beaten. “The final proof of all this,” she wrote, “was invariably a learned statement such as ‘After all, why doesn’t she leave him?’” (more…)
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