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…mehr
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.
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.
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Notes on Contributors.
INTRODUCTION.
1. Violence and the Vulnerabilities of Gender (ShaniD'Cruze and Anupama Rao).
VULNERABILITIES.
2. Female Suicide, Subjectivity and the State inEighteenth-Century China (Janet Theiss).
3. 'She Is But a Woman': Kitty Byron and the EnglishEdwardian Criminal Justice System (Ginger Frost).
4. Mothers/Fighters/Citizens: Violence and Disillusionment inPost-War El Salvador (Irina Carlota Silber).
POTENTIALITIES.
5. Gendered Violence: Castration and Blinding as Punishment forTreason in Normandy and Anglo-Norman England (Klaus VanEickels).
6. Precarious Conditions: A Note on Counter-Insurgency in AfricaAfter 1945 (LuiseWhite).
7. Stalinist Identity from the Viewpoint of Gender: Rearing aGeneration of Professionally Violent Women-Fighters in 1930sStalinist Russia (Anna Krylova).
8. "Generous Amazons Came to the Breach': Besieged Women,Agency and Subjectivity During the French Wars of Religion (BrianSandberg).
VISIBILITIES.
9. Gendered Visibilities and the Dream of Transparency: TheChinese-Indonesian Rape Debate in Post-Suharto Indonesia (KarenStrassler).
10. Woman and Violence in Artistic Discourse of the RussianRevolution and Civil War (1917-1922) (Anna N. Eremeeva) Translatedby (Dan Healy).
11. Un/safe/ly at Home: Narratives of Sexual Coercion in 1920sEgypt (Marilyn Booth).
POSSIBILITIES.
12. Rethinking Law and Violence: The Domestic Violence(Prevention) Bill in India, 2002 (Rajeswari Sunder Rajan).
13. Prostitution, Sex Work and Violence: Discursive andPolitical Contexts for Five Texts on Paid Sex, 1987-2001 (Svati P.Shah).
14. Apparitions of Desire: Clive van den Berg and the Art ofHistorical Unknowability (Rosalind C. Morris).
1. Violence and the Vulnerabilities of Gender (ShaniD'Cruze and Anupama Rao).
VULNERABILITIES.
2. Female Suicide, Subjectivity and the State inEighteenth-Century China (Janet Theiss).
3. 'She Is But a Woman': Kitty Byron and the EnglishEdwardian Criminal Justice System (Ginger Frost).
4. Mothers/Fighters/Citizens: Violence and Disillusionment inPost-War El Salvador (Irina Carlota Silber).
POTENTIALITIES.
5. Gendered Violence: Castration and Blinding as Punishment forTreason in Normandy and Anglo-Norman England (Klaus VanEickels).
6. Precarious Conditions: A Note on Counter-Insurgency in AfricaAfter 1945 (LuiseWhite).
7. Stalinist Identity from the Viewpoint of Gender: Rearing aGeneration of Professionally Violent Women-Fighters in 1930sStalinist Russia (Anna Krylova).
8. "Generous Amazons Came to the Breach': Besieged Women,Agency and Subjectivity During the French Wars of Religion (BrianSandberg).
VISIBILITIES.
9. Gendered Visibilities and the Dream of Transparency: TheChinese-Indonesian Rape Debate in Post-Suharto Indonesia (KarenStrassler).
10. Woman and Violence in Artistic Discourse of the RussianRevolution and Civil War (1917-1922) (Anna N. Eremeeva) Translatedby (Dan Healy).
11. Un/safe/ly at Home: Narratives of Sexual Coercion in 1920sEgypt (Marilyn Booth).
POSSIBILITIES.
12. Rethinking Law and Violence: The Domestic Violence(Prevention) Bill in India, 2002 (Rajeswari Sunder Rajan).
13. Prostitution, Sex Work and Violence: Discursive andPolitical Contexts for Five Texts on Paid Sex, 1987-2001 (Svati P.Shah).
14. Apparitions of Desire: Clive van den Berg and the Art ofHistorical Unknowability (Rosalind C. Morris).
Index.
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