Positioning domestic violence as a means of exerting patriarchal control and ownership is a theory brought vividly to life by cases like that of Kayla Hayes, a nineteen-year-old student whose “controlling and manipulative” ex-boyfriend Seth Fleury bit into her face and half ripped her lower lip off after she broke up with him, because, Hayes said, “he wanted to leave his mark on me for my next boyfriend.”5 It also fits closely with the significant number of cases in which men murder their own children, framed by the perpetrators, in multiple cases, as an attempt to regain control over their
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