Publisher's Synopsis
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.
