Gender, Agency and Violence

European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day

Edited By: Dr Ulrike Zitzlsperger

£44.99

This volume centres on male and female perpetrators of violence in European literature, cinema, and art from the 16th to 20th century. It explores how the arts and media respond to historical turning points that challenge the link between gender, agency and violence.

Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day centres on literary, cinematic and artistic male and female perpetrators of…

Gender, Agency and Violence: European Perspectives from Early Modern Times to the Present Day centres on literary, cinematic and artistic male and female perpetrators of violence and their discourses.

This volume takes an interdisciplinary and cross-European approach – covering French, German, English and Italian case-studies from the sixteenth to the twentieth century and allowing for the exploration of recurrent themes. The contributions also facilitate an insight into how the arts and media respond to historical turning points which, time and again, challenge the link between gender, agency and violence for individuals and society alike.

Ulrike Zitzlsperger is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Exeter, England. She has published on the cultural and literary history of Berlin in the twentieth century; ‘semi-public’ spaces (hotels, railway-stations, cafés and department stores) in film and literature; and the role of women in the German Reformation.