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Gender Matters opens the debate concerning violence in literature and the arts beyond a single national tradition and engages with multivalent aspects of both female and male gender constructs, mapping them onto depictions of violence. By defining a tight thematic focus and yet offering a broad disciplinary scope for inquiry, the present volume brings together a wide range of scholarly papers investigating a cohesive topic—gendered violence—from the perspectives of French, German, Italian, Spanish, English, and Japanese literature, history, musicology, art history, and cultural studies. It interrogates the intersection of gender and violence in the early modern period, cutting across national traditions, genres, media, and disciplines. By engaging several levels of discourse, the volume advances a holistic approach to understanding gendered violence in the early modern world. The convergence of discourses concerning literature, the arts, emerging print technologies, social and legal norms, and textual and visual practices leverages a more complex understanding of gender in this period. Through the unifying lens of gender and violence the contributions to this volume comprehensively address a wide scope of diverse issues, approaches, and geographies from late medieval Japan to the European Enlightenment. While the majority of essays focus on early modern Europe, they are broadly contextualized and informed by integrated critical approaches pertaining to issues of violence and gender.

Sociology of literature --- Thematology --- Iconography --- Violence in literature. --- Sex role in literature. --- Violence in the theater. --- Sex role in the theater. --- Theater --- Stage combat --- Gendered violence

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Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human world. Others view this entity more ambivalently. Kelly E. Hayes provides an intimate and engaging account of the intricate relationship between Pomba Gira and one of her devotees, Nazaré da Silva. Combining Nazaré's spiritual biography with analysis of the gender politics and violence that shapes life on the periphery of Rio de Janeiro, Hayes highlights Pomba Gira's role in the rivalries, relationships, and struggles of everyday life in urban Brazil.A DVD of the film Slaves of the Saints is included.

Pomba-Gira. --- Afro-Brazilian cults --- Brazil --- Religious life and customs. --- afro brazilian. --- anthropology. --- black magic. --- brazil. --- contemporary brazil. --- controversial figures. --- femininity. --- feminism. --- gender politics. --- gender studies. --- gendered violence. --- magic. --- modern history. --- morality. --- mystical. --- nonfiction. --- pomba gira. --- prostitution. --- religious figures. --- religious practices. --- rio de janeiro. --- rituals. --- sex politics. --- sexuality. --- social marginality. --- social science. --- spirits. --- spirituality. --- superstitious. --- urban brazil. --- world religions. --- Afro-Brazilian religions --- Pomba Gira

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In Search of Safety takes a close look at the sources of gendered violence and conflict in women's prisons. The authors examine how intersectional inequalities and cumulative disadvantages are at the root of prison conflict and violence and mirror the women's pathways to prison. Women must negotiate these inequities by developing forms of prison capital-social, human, cultural, emotional, and economic-to ensure their safety while inside. The authors also analyze how conflict and subsequent violence result from human-rights violations inside the prison that occur within the gendered context of substandard prison conditions, inequalities of capital among those imprisoned, and relationships with correctional staff. In Search of Safety proposes a way forward-the implementation of international human-rights standards for U.S. prisons.

Women prisoners --- Prisons --- Dungeons --- Gaols --- Penitentiaries --- Correctional institutions --- Imprisonment --- Prison-industrial complex --- Prisoners --- Social conditions. --- Social aspects --- Violence against --- american womens prisons. --- conflict in womens prisons. --- female inmates. --- female prisoners. --- gendered harm. --- gendered violence. --- human rights violations in prison. --- human rights. --- life in womens prison. --- physical safety in womens prisons. --- prison capital. --- prison conditions. --- prison conflict. --- prison life. --- prison persona. --- prison violence. --- prisoners rights. --- violence in womens prisons. --- womens pathway to prison. --- womens prisons in the us. --- womens prisons.

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Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," (women who accept money for sex) Wayward Women explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an expression of resistance, or even revenge. Challenging conventional understandings of "prostitution" and "sex work," Holly Wardlow contextualizes the actions and intentions of passenger women in a rich analysis of kinship, bridewealth, marriage, and exchange, revealing the ways in which these robust social institutions are transformed by an encompassing capitalist economy. Many passenger women assert that they have been treated "olsem maket" (like market goods) by their husbands and natal kin, and they respond by fleeing home and defiantly appropriating their sexuality for their own purposes. Experiences of rape, violence, and the failure of kin to redress such wrongs figure prominently in their own stories about becoming "wayward." Drawing on village court cases, hospital records, and women's own raw, caustic , and darkly funny narratives, Wayward Women provides a riveting portrait of the way modernity engages with gender to produce new and contested subjectivities.

Women, Huli --- Bride price --- Courtship --- Courting --- Wooing --- Betrothal --- Love --- Love-letters --- Marriage --- Bride purchase --- Bridewealth --- Lobola --- Lobolo --- Dowry --- Huli women --- Sexual behavior --- Social conditions. --- Economic conditions. --- Tari District (Papua New Guinea) --- Femmes Huli --- Prix de la fiancée --- Amours --- Sexualité --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- Tari (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée : District) --- anthropologists. --- bridewealth. --- capitalist economy. --- contemporary papua new guinea. --- court cases. --- ethnography. --- female agency. --- gender issues. --- gender studies. --- gendered violence. --- huli women. --- marriage. --- modern world. --- new guinea society. --- nonfiction. --- papua new guinea. --- passenger women. --- personal experiences. --- prostitution. --- rape. --- sex workers. --- sexuality. --- social institutions. --- socioeconomic factors. --- transactional sex. --- village law. --- women and families. --- women. --- womens roles.

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In this fresh, literate, and biting critique of current thinking on some of today's most important and controversial topics, leading anthropologists take on some of America's top pundits. This absorbing collection of essays subjects such popular commentators as Thomas Friedman, Samuel Huntington, Robert Kaplan, and Dinesh D'Souza to cold, hard scrutiny and finds that their writing is often misleadingly simplistic, culturally ill-informed, and politically dangerous. Mixing critical reflection with insights from their own fieldwork, twelve distinguished anthropologists respond by offering fresh perspectives on globalization, ethnic violence, social justice, and the biological roots of behavior. They take on such topics as the collapse of Yugoslavia, the consumer practices of the American poor, American foreign policy in the Balkans, and contemporary debates over race, welfare, and violence against women. In the clear, vigorous prose of the pundits themselves, these contributors reveal the hollowness of what often passes as prevailing wisdom and passionately demonstrate the need for a humanistically complex and democratic understanding of the contemporary world. Available: November 2004Pub Date: January 2005

Mass media and anthropology. --- Communication and society. --- Communication in anthropology. --- Communication --- Specialists. --- Common fallacies. --- Blunders --- Errors, Popular --- Fallacies, Common --- Information, Misattributed --- Misattributed information --- Misconceptions, Popular --- Misinformation --- Mistakes, Popular --- Popular errors --- Popular misconceptions --- Errors --- Authorities (Persons) --- Experts --- Persons --- Intellectuals --- Communication and politics --- Politics and communication --- Anthropology --- Anthropology and mass media --- Political aspects. --- Common fallacies --- Médias et anthropologie --- Communication en anthropologie --- Spécialistes --- Erreurs populaires --- Social aspects --- Aspect social --- Aspect politique --- Misinformation (Common fallacies) --- america. --- american foreign policy. --- anthology. --- anthropologists. --- anthropology. --- biology. --- contemporary world. --- controversial topics. --- democratic. --- dinesh dsouza. --- essay collection. --- ethnic violence. --- fieldwork. --- gendered violence. --- globalization. --- history and sociology. --- humanistic. --- modern critique. --- nonfiction essays. --- political thought. --- poverty. --- pundits. --- race issues. --- robert kaplan. --- samuel huntington. --- social issues. --- social justice. --- social science. --- thomas friedman. --- under scrutiny. --- welfare. --- yugoslavia. --- Social aspects.