Violence, Vulnerability and Embodiment

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.