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Gendering Coercive Control

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ID12435979
AuthorsKristin L Anderson (0000-0003-3756-2552, Western Washington University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume15
Issue12
Pages1444-1457
Publication date2009-10-15
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueViolence Against Women (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8012 • E-ISSN: 1552-8448
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1077801209346837
PMID19834070
OpenAlexW2101712371
LanguageEN
Citations received71
References cited32

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

Computer security · Control (management · Domestic violence · Economics · Inequality · Poison control · Social control · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Homelessness and Social Issues · Human Factors and Ergonomics · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Medicine · Psychology · Social Psychology

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