Violence, vulnerability and embodiment :  Gender and history / 
 Violence, vulnerability & embodiment. 
edited by Shani D'Cruze and Anupama Rao. 
 - ix, 343 :  illustrations ;  23 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Violence and the vulnerabilities of gender /  Female suicide, subjectivity and the state in eighteenth-century China /  'She is but a woman' : Kitty Byron and the English Edwardian criminal justice system /  Mothers/fighters/citizens : violence and disillusionment in post-war El Salvador /  Gendered violence : Castration and blinding as punishment for treason in Normandy and Anglo-Norman England /  Precarious conditions : a note on counter-insurgency in Africa after 1945 /  Stalinist identity from the viewpoint of gender : rearing a generation of professionally violent women-fighters in 1930s Stalinist Russia /  'Generous Amazons came to the breach' : besieged women, agency and subjectivity during the French wars of religion /  Gendered visibilities and the dream of transparency : the Chinese-Indonesian rape debate in post-Suharto Indonesia /  Woman and violence in artistic discourse of the Russian revolution and Civil War (1917-1922) /  Un/safe/ly at home : narratives of sexual coercion in 1920s Egypt /  Rethinking law and violence : the domestic violence (prevention) bill in India, 2002 /  Prostitution, sex work and violence : discursive and political contexts for five texts on paid sex, 1987-2001 /  Apparitions of desire : Clive van den Berg and the art of historical unknowability /  Shani D'Cruze and Anupama Rao --  Janet Theiss --  Ginger Frost --  Irina Carlota Silber --  Klaus Van Eickels --  Luise White --  Anna Krylova --  Brian Sandberg --  Karen Strassler --  Anna N. Eremeeva --  Marilyn Booth --  Rajeswari Sunder Rajan --  Svati P. Shah --  Rosalind C. Morris.  1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6.  7.  8.  9.  10.  11.  12.  13.  14. 
<br/><br/> "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 performative act that can be read symptomatically and as a diagnostic for deeper, more complex historical structures."--BOOK JACKET. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1405120924 9781405120920 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Women--Violence against<br/>Historical sociology<br/>Violence.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>305.42