{"product_id":"violence-vulnerability-and-embodiment-9781405120920","title":"Violence Vulnerability and Embodiment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eUses new and interdisciplinary approaches in gender history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConsiders the issues across time, from the classical world to the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers a wide range of locations, including Africa, China, Europe, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eAcademically and theoretically innovative.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eIncludes work by authors from different countries and different disciplines.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eHelps readers to understand violence both as a diagnostic for deeper, more complex historical structures, and as a performative act that can be read symptomatically.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNotes on Contributors. \u003cp\u003eINTRODUCTION.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Violence and the Vulnerabilities of Gender (Shani D’Cruze and Anupama Rao).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVULNERABILITIES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. Female Suicide, Subjectivity and the State in Eighteenth-Century China (Janet Theiss).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. ‘She Is But a Woman’: Kitty Byron and the English Edwardian Criminal Justice System (Ginger Frost).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Mothers\/Fighters\/Citizens: Violence and Disillusionment in Post-War El Salvador (Irina Carlota Silber).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOTENTIALITIES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Gendered Violence: Castration and Blinding as Punishment for Treason in Normandy and Anglo-Norman England (Klaus Van Eickels).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Precarious Conditions: A Note on Counter-Insurgency in Africa After 1945 (LuiseWhite).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Stalinist Identity from the Viewpoint of Gender: Rearing a Generation of Professionally Violent Women-Fighters in 1930s Stalinist Russia (Anna Krylova).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. \"Generous Amazons Came to the Breach’: Besieged Women, Agency and Subjectivity During the French Wars of Religion (Brian Sandberg).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVISIBILITIES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Gendered Visibilities and the Dream of Transparency: The Chinese-Indonesian Rape Debate in Post-Suharto Indonesia (Karen Strassler).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Woman and Violence in Artistic Discourse of the Russian Revolution and Civil War (1917-1922) (Anna N. Eremeeva) Translated by (Dan Healy).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Un\/safe\/ly at Home: Narratives of Sexual Coercion in 1920s Egypt (Marilyn Booth).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePOSSIBILITIES.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Rethinking Law and Violence: The Domestic Violence (Prevention) Bill in India, 2002 (Rajeswari Sunder Rajan).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Prostitution, Sex Work and Violence: Discursive and Political Contexts for Five Texts on Paid Sex, 1987-2001 (Svati P. Shah).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Apparitions of Desire: Clive van den Berg and the Art of Historical Unknowability (Rosalind C. Morris).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52090873119063,"sku":"9781405120920","price":21.61,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405120920.jpg?v=1762273676","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/violence-vulnerability-and-embodiment-9781405120920","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}