Burning Woman
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Burning Women
In early modern Europe, the circulation of visual and verbal transmissions of sati, or Hindu widow burning, not only informed responses to the ritualized violence of Hindu culture, but also intersected in fascinating ways with specifically European forms of ritualized violence and European constructions of gender ideology. European accounts of women being burned in India uncannily commented on the burnings of women as witches and criminal wives in Europe. When Europeans narrated their accounts of sati, perhaps the most striking illustration of Hindu patriarchal violence, they did not specifically connect the act of widow burning to a corresponding European signifier: the gruesome ceremonial burnings of women as witches. In examining early modern representations of sati, the book focuses specifically on those strategies that enabled European travellers to protect their own identity as uniquely civilized amidst spectacular displays of 'Eastern barbarity'.
The Burning Woman
'Breathtakingly original, and a captivating sense of place' VAL McDERMID 'A brilliantly inventive and twisty tale' CLAIRE McGOWAN, bestselling author of The Push 'A distinctive, intriguing, immersive debut' MARI HANNAH, multi-award winning author of Without a Trace A local woman is found in a children's playground, tied up and burned to death. Her clothes are neatly folded and laid at the base of a nearby tree. Her body, charred and still smoking, is on display for all to see. One town over, another victim is discovered in the scorched remains of a brutal fire, her clothes having been laid out just beyond the reach of the vicious flames. Isabel Reis is called back to her post in the PolÍcia Judiciária hunt the serial killer and extinguish the red-hot city of Lisbon, or will she too get caught up in the smoke of the fire burning so close to home . . . The blood-tingling final instalment in the critically acclaimed Inspector Reis series propels us back to Portugal, right into the path of a serial killer.
Burning Woman
The long-awaited new title from Amazon bestselling author, Lucy H. Pearce, Burning Woman is an incendiary exploration of power and the Feminine. Pearce uncovers the archetype of the Burning Woman, fearlessly examining the roots of Feminine power--what it is, how it has been controlled, and why it needs to be unleashed on the world during our modern Burning Times. These burning words were written for women who burn with passion, have been burned with shame, and who at another time, in another place, would have been burned at the stake.