INTRODUCTION.

1. Violence and the Vulnerabilities of Gender (Shani D’Cruze and Anupama Rao).

VULNERABILITIES.

2. Female Suicide, Subjectivity and the State in Eighteenth-Century China (Janet Theiss).

3. ‘She Is But a Woman’: Kitty Byron and the English Edwardian Criminal Justice System (Ginger Frost).

4. Mothers/Fighters/Citizens: Violence and Disillusionment in Post-War El Salvador (Irina Carlota Silber).

POTENTIALITIES.

5. Gendered Violence: Castration and Blinding as Punishment for Treason in Normandy and Anglo-Norman England (Klaus Van Eickels).

6. Precarious Conditions: A Note on Counter-Insurgency in Africa After 1945 (LuiseWhite).

7. Stalinist Identity from the Viewpoint of Gender: Rearing a Generation of Professionally Violent Women-Fighters in 1930s Stalinist Russia (Anna Krylova).

8. "Generous Amazons Came to the Breach’: Besieged Women, Agency and Subjectivity During the French Wars of Religion (Brian Sandberg).

VISIBILITIES.

9. Gendered Visibilities and the Dream of Transparency: The Chinese-Indonesian Rape Debate in Post-Suharto Indonesia (Karen Strassler).

10. Woman and Violence in Artistic Discourse of the Russian Revolution and Civil War (1917-1922) (Anna N. Eremeeva) Translated by (Dan Healy).

11. Un/safe/ly at Home: Narratives of Sexual Coercion in 1920s Egypt (Marilyn Booth).

POSSIBILITIES.

12. Rethinking Law and Violence: The Domestic Violence (Prevention) Bill in India, 2002 (Rajeswari Sunder Rajan).

13. Prostitution, Sex Work and Violence: Discursive and Political Contexts for Five Texts on Paid Sex, 1987-2001 (Svati P. Shah).

14. Apparitions of Desire: Clive van den Berg and the Art of Historical Unknowability (Rosalind C. Morris).

Index.