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‘Daphne and her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence’

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‘Daphne and her Sisters: Framing Gendered Violence’ asks what portrayals of violence against women in the literature and art of the global early modern past reveal about the cultures that produced them. It examines, too, what our continuing fascination with such portrayals says about our culture and society. Of particular interest will be artistic or literary representations whose profound impact can be traced through imitations, adaptations, translations and other forms of artistic recreation across cultures and time. Where words and images live on in successive iterations, the project will chart varying attitudes to their themes and trace genealogies of cultural response to everyday violence. As it investigates the complex connections between cultural products and the societies that produce them, it develops a model of engagement that deploys such cultural products in the global campaign against the very violence they depict. 

University student
"Our project studies violence against women as depicted in early modern literature and art. It examines what such works reveal about the people and societies that produced them and imagines how they might best be deployed today in the global campaign to end violence against women."

Professor Ita Mac Carthy
Barker Senior Research Fellow