Violence, its specificity and significance across temporal and spatial boundaries, is a key topic for feminist scholarship. This well–illustrated collection uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history to explore violence as a form of gendered embodiment across place and time.
The contributors discuss violence in a wide range of contexts, from castration and blinding as punishment for treason in Normandy and Anglo–Norman England, through the rearing of professional female fighters in 1930s Stalinist Russia, to the Domestic Violence (Prevention) Bill in India in 2002. They ask why some forms of violence are valorised, permitted or rendered invisible, while others are stigmatised, policed or criminalised; and they consider the relationship between everyday violent acts, and the extraordinary or spectacular use of violence as humiliation or punishment.
The book helps readers to understand violence as a as a performative act that can be read symptomatically and as a diagnostic for deeper, more complex historical structures.
This well–illustrated collection uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history to explore violence as a form of gendered embodiment across place and time, from the medieval world to the twenty–first century. Uses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history. Considers the issues across time, from the classical world to the twenty–first century. Covers a wide range of locations, including Africa, China, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia. Academically and theoretically innovative. Includes work by authors from different countries and different disciplines. Helps readers to understand violence both as a diagnostic for deeper, more complex historical structures, and as a performative act that can be read symptomatically.
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