Violence Against Women in Eastern Europe

Marianna Muravyeva is Professor at the University of Helsinki, Finland.Sigita Černevičiūtė is Research Fellow at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.Monika Rogers is Research Fellow at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania.

• Introduction.- 1. Violence Against Women and Social Control in Seventeenth-Century Vilnius.- 2. Body as Evidence: Forensics and Physical Evidence in the Eighteenth-Century Prosecutions for Sexual Violence.- 3. Violence and the Family: The Foundations of a New Domesticity and National Identity in Imperial Russia.- 4. Violence Against Women and the 1905 Revolution in the Baltic Provinces of the Russian Empire.- 5. Stigma or Insight? Analyzing the Role of Psychotrauma in Early 20th Century Hungarian Psychiatry.- 6. Femicide and Fatal Family Violence in the First Republic of Lithuania (1918–1940).- 7. State Visions and Social Realities: Intimate Partner Violence in Early Soviet Russia.- 8. Violence against women – prisoners of Ravensbrück.- 9. Displacement and Danger: Women in Ghettos and Camps of Eastern Europe during the Holocaust.- 10. Sexual Abuse of Women in Soviet Occupied Lithuania: Legal and Political Dimensions of Rape.- 11. Who is the Victim to Blame? Ideal Victim and Violence Against Women in Soviet Lithuania.- 12. Combatting domestic and gender-based violence in Ukraine: from first days of the Independence to Russia's full-scale invasion.