Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment

Gender and History

360 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.