Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment: Gender and History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781405120920)

Vendor: Shani D'Cruze
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Format: Paperback
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Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment: Gender and History

$43.75

Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment: Gender and History

$43.75
Format: 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.


Author: Shani D'Cruze
ISBN-10: 1405120924
ISBN-13: 9781405120920
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2005
Pages: 360
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.44lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.10w x 0.67d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 147
By Shani D'Cruze
By Shani D'Cruze
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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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