Shani D'Cruze is Reader in Gender History at Manchester Metropolitan University. She was co-editor of the journal Gender and History between 2000 and 2004. Her main publications are on the nineteenth- and twentieth-century social and cultural history of violence, crime and gender and the gender history of the nineteenth-century family. Anupama Rao is Assistant Professor of South Asian History at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her interests are in Indian nationalism; anti-caste struggles; caste, gender and the family form in nineteenth- and twentieth-century western India; historical anthropology; the anthropology of violence; human rights and feminist and critical theory.

• Notes on Contributors. 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.