Gender, Violence and Attitudes: Lessons from Early Modern Europe

ISBN-13: 9781138097063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 206 str.

Satu Lidman

Opis

Gender, Violence and Attitudes explores the history of gendered violence in Europe, particularly spousal violence and sexual violence in the early modern period. This book analyses the history of attitudes and practices related to gender and is ideal for students who wish to understand the history of violence in early modern Europe

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction: Teaching and Learning; 1.1 Studying Gender and Violence; 1.2 Historical Roots of Topical Issues; Part II. Spousal Trouble: Fighting Like Cats and Dogs; 2.1 Gendering Marital Disputes; 2.2 Domestic Discipline or Crimes of Violence?; 2.3 Women’s Aggression against Men; 2.4 Dissolving, Annulling or Preserving a Marriage; Part III. Sexual Trouble: Her will and His; 3.1 Daughters, Wives and Mothers; 3.2 Fathers, Brothers and Husbands; 3.3 Rape and Hierarchies of Victimhood; 3.4 Invisible Sexualized Violence; Epilogue: Breaking Down Structures of Violence; Appendix: Mental Exercises

O autorze

Satu Lidman is Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku, Finland. Her previous publications include two co-edited collections entitled Morality, Crime and Social Control in Europe 1500–1900 (2014) and Framing Premodern Desires (2017), among others. For more information visit: www.lidman.fi.

Translation by Eva Malkki