Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment
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- ISBN 9781405120920
- Weight: 572g
- Dimensions: 153 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Jul 2005
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
