Violence, vulnerability and embodiment
Subtitle: gender and history
By: edited by Shani D'Cruze and Anupama Rao.
Contributors: D'Cruze, Shani.; Rao, Anupama.
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Malden, MA; Oxford England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Women -- Violence against.; Historical sociology.; Violence.
Other titles: Violence, vulnerability & embodiment
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Violence and the vulnerabilities of gender / Shani D'Cruze and Anupama Rao; value: Female suicide, subjectivity and the state in eighteenth-century China / Janet Theiss; value: 'She is but a woman' : Kitty Byron and the English Edwardian criminal justice system / Ginger Frost; value: Mothers/fighters/citizens : violence and disillusionment in post-war El Salvador / Irina Carlota Silber; value: Gendered violence : castration and blinding as punishment for treason in Normandy and Anglo-Norman England / Klaus Van Eickels; value: Precarious conditions : a note on counter-insurgency in Africa after 1945 / Luise White; value: Stalinist identity from the viewpoint of gender : rearing a generation of professionally violent women-fighters in 1930s Stalinist Russia / Anna Krylova; value: ' Generous Amazons came to the breach' : besieged women, agency and subjectivity during the French Wars of religion / Brian Sandberg; value: Gendered visibilities and the dream of transparency : the Chinese-Indonesian rape debate in post-Suharto Indonesia / Karen Strassler; value: Woman and violence in artistic discourse of the Russian Revolution and Civil War (1917-1922) / Anna N. Eremeeva, translated by Dan Healey; value: Un/safe/ly at home : narratives of sexual coercion in 1920s Egypt / Marilyn Booth; value: Rethinking law and violence : the Domestic Violence (Prevention) Bill in India, 2002 / Rajeswari Sunder Rajan; value: Prostitution, sex work and violence : discursive and political contexts for five texts on paid sex, 1987-2001 / Svati P. Shah; value: Apparitions of desire : Clive van den Berg and the art of historical unknowability / Rosalind C. Morris.