1st Edition
Gender, Violence and Attitudes Lessons from Early Modern Europe
Part I. Introduction: Teaching and Learning
1.1 Studying Gender and Violence
Objectives of research * Attitudinal history and other essential concepts * Previous studies and sources
1.2 Historical Roots of Topical Issues
Ineludible patriarchy * From women’s rights to human rights and feminism * On the prevalence and dynamics of gender-based violence
Part II. Spousal Trouble: Fighting Like Cats and Dogs
2.1 Gendering Marital Disputes
Mirror of affection: mutual duties * To love and fear your husband * Masculine norms of violence and aggression
2.2 Domestic Discipline or Crimes of Violence?
The power to protect * Between excessive and appropriate chastisement * Legitimizing spousal power relations * Punishable tyranny
2.3 Women’s Aggression against Men
First there was nagging * Female devil in the wrong trousers * Inverted perpetrators and victims
2.4 Dissolving, Annulling or Preserving a Marriage
Strategies of guilt * Aiming at harmony * The slippery slopes of intimate-partner violence
Part III. Sexual Trouble: Her will and His
3.1 Daughters, Wives and Mothers
Obedience or agency? * The double standards of chastity * Knowing your place
3.2 Fathers, Brothers and Husbands
Be in control or be ashamed * The virile subject * Challenging toxic masculinity
3.3 Rape and Hierarchies of Victimhood
Ravished and taken * Who deserved legal protection? * Deep-rooted rape culture
3.4 Invisible Sexualized Violence
One spouse takes, the other one gives * Elements of intimacy and violence * Sexualized rhetoric and slander
Epilogue: Breaking Down Structures of Violence
Appendix: Mental Exercises
Biography
Satu Lidman is Adjunct Professor at the University of Turku, Finland. Her previous publications include two co-edited collections entitled Morality, Crime and Social Control in Europe 1500–1900 (2014) and Framing Premodern Desires (2017), among others. For more information visit: www.lidman.fi.
Translation by Eva Malkki
