How long does it take to read Coercive Control?
Evan Stark
Coercive Control by Evan Stark takes about 8 hours 24 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 8 hours 24 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2007. 458 pages, about 125,950 words.
17 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 14 hours |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 8 hours 24 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 5 hours 15 minutes |
The page count is the median across 4 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Despite its great achievements, the domestic violence revolution is stalled, Evan Stark argues, a provocative conclusion he documents by showing that interventions have failed to improve women's long-term safety in relationships or to hold perpetrators accountable. Stark traces this failure to a startling paradox, that the singular focus on violence against women masks an even more devastating reality. In millions of abusive relationships, men use a largely unidentified form of subjugation that more closely resembles kidnapping or indentured servitude than assault. He calls this pattern "coercive control." Drawing on sources that range from FBI statistics and film to dozens of actual cases from his thirty years of experience as an award-winning researcher, advocate, and forensic expert, Stark shows in terrifying detail how men can use coercive control to extend their dominance over time and through social space in ways that subvert women's autonomy, isolate them, and infiltrate the most intimate corners of their lives. Against this backdrop, Stark analyzes the cases of three women tried for crimes committed in the context of abuse, showing that their reactions are only intelligible when they are reframed as victims of coercive control rather than as "battered wives."" "Elevating coercive control from a second-class misdemeanor to a human rights violation, Stark explains why law, policy, and advocacy must shift their focus to emphasize how coercive control jeopardizes women's freedom in everyday life. Fiercely argued and eminently readable, Stark's work is certain to breathe new life into the domestic violence revolution."--Jacket.
Subjects: Abused women, Control (Psychology), Psychological abuse, Wife abuse, Gewalt, Spouse Abuse
