Gender and Violence in Historical and Contemporary Perspectiv... - 9781138506824

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Preface Part I. Introduction (a) Situating India: Challenges and Propositions Jyoti Atwal (b) Researching Gender-Based Violence in India: Issues, Concepts, Approaches Iris Flessenk\u00E4mper Part II. Historical Encounters and Cultures of Violence 1. Of Devotional Zeal and Patriarchal Norms: Gender and Violence in the Periya Pur\u0101\u1E47am R. Mahalakshmi 2. Silenced Women, Speaking Men: Locating Gendered Epistemic Violence in 19th-century German Representations of India Felicity Jensz 3. Gendered Behaviour: Religious Norms and Sexual Deviance in the Basel India Mission in the First Half of the 19th Century Judith Becker 4. Bodies in Pain: Violence and Sexually \u2018Deviant\u2019 Male and Transgender Bodies in Colonial India, 1862-1922 Manju Ludwig 5. Sati, Child Wives and Prostitutes: Constituting Violence and Criminality in Colonial India Jyoti Atwal Part III. Minorities and Marginalised Women: Deviant Sexuality and Violence 6. Unregistered Concerns: Violence Against Women with Dt