History Catalogue 2006.qxp - Blackwell Publishing

Col lege, ty;RAO,Shani Cruze, D’MICHELETCHEL, SANDRAHUNTER, GUNING, TERAMIstory &Hi :Gender IndexerVisualHistories ders,MERY EESNER-HANKS, TERESAWI ,Violence, Vulnerability andtyandEmbodiment ilbiEmbodimentGender and HistoryANUPAMAEdited by SHANI D’CRUZE & ANUPAMA RAOColumbiaUniversiManchester Metropolitan University; Barnard College, Columbia UniversityThis well-illustrated collection uses new and interdisciplinary approachesin gender history to explore violence as a form of gendered embodimentacross place and time. Contributors discuss violence in a wide range ofcontexts, from castration and blinding as punishment for treason inNormandy and Anglo-Norman England, through the rearing ofprofessional female fighters in 1930s Stalinist Russia, to the DomesticViolence (Prevention) Bill in India in 2002. They ask why some forms ofviolence are valorised, permitted or rendered invisible, while others arestigmatised, policed or criminalised.SERIES: GENDER AND HISTORY SPECIAL ISSUES360 PAGES / 1-4051-2092-4 PB / JULY 2005spersal DiofoguesalDiDialogues of DispersalGender, Sexuality and African DiasporasEdited by SANDRA GUNNING, TERA HUNTER &MICHELE MITCHELLUniversity of Michigan; Carnegie Mellon University; University of MichiganFrom Brazil to Germany, New York to Ghana, DIALOGUES OF DISPERSALexamines the intersections of gender and sexuality within Afro-diasporiccommunities. This interdisciplinary volume covers a broad chronologicalsweep, ranging from eighteenth-century slavery to twentieth-centurysocial movements.SERIES: GENDER AND HISTORY SPECIAL ISSUES200 PAGES / 1-4051-2681-7 PB / 2004JOURNALSGender & HistoryEdited by KAREN ADLER,ROSS BALZARETTI,MICHELE MITCHELL &NITA KUMARwww.blackwellpublishing.com/GENDNEW IN PAPERBACK IN 2006A Companion to GenderAstory, ompaniontoGenderHiHistoryTERESAMEADEA. MEADE & MERRY E. WIESNER-HANKSUnion College, New York; University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeA COMPANION TO GENDER HISTORY surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men ingendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shapinghuman behavior over thousands of years. It contains boththematic essays, which demonstrate how gender has intersectedwith other historical topics, and chronological-geographic essays,which explore gender in one area of the world during a specificperiod. All the essays consider the importance of class, region,ethnicity, race, and religion to the formation of genderedsocieties.The contributions are written by scholars from across the Englishspeakingworld, including Canada, Britain, Australia, India, NewZealand, and the United States, as well as by scholars for whomEnglish is not their first language. One of the key points toemerge from the volume as a whole is that no generalizationabout gender has applied to all times or all places.SERIES: BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO HISTORY688 PAGES / 0-631-22393-2 HB 2003 / 1-4051-4960-4 PB MARCH 2006NEW IN 2006Visual Genders, Visual HistoriesPATRICIAHAYES,Edited by PATRICIA HAYESUniversity of the Western CapeVISUAL GENDERS, VISUAL HISTORIES breaks new ground in visualstudies by exploring the visual dimensions of gender. Comprisinga series of contributions from experts all around the world, thebook helps readers to move beyond consideration of gender as asocial construct, towards an understanding of the visualconstructions of gender.The contributors study the ways in which the visual shapesmeaning, considering material ranging from documentary filmfootage of liberated concentration camps after World War II, andcontemporary fashion photography in Tehran, to a queer artexhibition disguised as a nineteenth-century archive. Chaptersare organised conceptually under the headings of documenting,trafficking and experimenting. They focus mainly on thenineteenth and twentieth centuries, covering not only Europeand North America but also Argentina, Iran and southern Africa.A diverse selection of exceptional and provocative imagesaccompanies the text.SERIES: GENDER AND HISTORY SPECIAL ISSUES256 PAGES / 1-4051-4665-6 PB / MAY 2006GENDER HISTORY39