Andrew Mangham's accessible study explores how ideas of violent femininity became integral to the workings of nineteenth-century culture. In the mid-Victorian era, society was rocked by the occurrence of a number of brutal crimes committed by women. In 1854, for example, Mary Ann Brough was tried fo[...]
First published in Japanese in 1966, the debut novel of the critically acclaimed author of Singular Rebellion is an unusual portrait of a deeply taboo subject in twentieth-century Japanese society: resistance to the draft in World War II. In 1940 Shokichi Hamada is a conscientious objector who dodg[...]