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Abstract: 

In 1977, Del Martin launched the battered women’s movement by publishing the first popular book on domestic violence (DV), Battered Wives. Not since then has anyone sympathetically reexamined that view wholesale until Evan Stark in Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life. Stark performs a real service in introducing a whole new look at DV, and what aspects of DV most harm women. The book is reviewed more fully here.

Keywords: some concepts not entirely new; Failure of U.S. to Recognize Coercive Control; human rights and civil liberties violations; DV Revolution stalled

Affiliations:  1: Editor, Domestic Violence Report.