Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment: Gender and History - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1405120924 ISBN 13 : 9781405120920

Editeur : *Wiley-Blackwell, 2005

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Shani D'Cruze is Reader in Gender History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was co-editor of the journal Gender and History between 2000 and 2004. Her main publications are on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and cultural history of violence, crime and gender and the gender history of the nineteenth-century family.

Anupama Rao is Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her interests are in Indian nationalism; anti-caste struggles; caste, gender and the family form in nineteenth- and twentieth-century western India; historical anthropology; the anthropology of violence; human rights and feminist and critical theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: *Wiley-Blackwell
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1405120924
• ISBN 13: 9781405120920
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 354
• Éditeur: D'Cruze Shani, Rao Anupama
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible