Gender, Violence and Attitudes

Lessons from Early Modern Europe

Satu Lidman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2018
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-09706-3 (ISBN)

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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

Gender, Violence and Attitudes explores the history of gender-based violence in early modern Europe, particularly intimate-partner violence and sexual violence. It also investigates the legacy of gender-based violence through the Enlightenment to the present day and offers a historical background to highly topical human rights issues.

Although the individual subjects of gender and the history of violence are not new topics, the gendering of violence has received little examination. Within this book, the history of attitudes and practices related to gender and power are analysed, and the nature of violence, justice and societal considerations of gender are explored as cultural constructs: they have the capacity to change over time, although there also is a tendency for continuity. The study is based on a wide range of sources including marriage guides, poems, plays, legal texts and court records exploring deep-rooted violence phenomena in Sweden (including historical Finland), the German territories, England and, to some extent, France.

Offering a detailed analysis of gender and the culture of violence, Gender, Violence and Attitudes is essential reading for students and general readers who wish to understand the history of violence and its continual association with gender from early modern Europe to the present day.

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

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

Erscheinungsdatum	02.08.2018
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 14 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	326 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-138-09706-3 / 1138097063
ISBN-13	978-1-138-09706-3 / 9781138097063
Zustand	Neuware