ABSTRACT
This chapter excavates the concept of coercive control and its impact on those subjected to it. It considers whose experiences this concept captures most readily and whose experiences are less visible in the way in which it has been articulated. In so doing, it focuses particular attention on the experiences of marginalized women (Indigenous women and women of colour, migrant women, women with disabilities, and those people with different sexualities) and also considers men’s experiences as victims of coercive control. These experiences are set against the question of what a normal relationship might look like and how and when a normal relationship might be considered coercive. The influence of Stark’s work is centred in these discussions.
