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Gendering Coercive Control

Western Washington University

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: Kristin.Anderson{at}wwu.edu.

	Abstract

This article examines the theory of gender presented in Stark’s Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life. Stark suggests that gender is a form of structural inequality that makes women more vulnerable than men to the strategies of coercive control. However, Stark assumes rather than demonstrates that gendered structural inequality increases women’s vulnerability. In this article, the author applies the multilevel theory of gender as identity, interaction, and social structure to document the multiple ways coercive control is gendered. The author argues that, to understand the gender dynamics of coercive control, researchers must examine the interactions across levels of gender. The author concludes with an assessment of the prospects and pitfalls of applying the concept of coercive control to renew the feminist social movement to end domestic violence.

First published on October 15, 2009, doi:10.1177/1077801209346837

Violence Against Women 2009;15:1444.

A more recent version of this article appeared on December 1, 2009


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