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Flogging Others: Corporal Punishment and Cultural Identity from Antiquity to the Present

By G. Geltner

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9089647864, 9789089647863
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
625 kB (640158 bytes)
Pages
112\113
Scanned
yes
Time added
2015-03-28 21:44:10

Description

Corporal punishment is often considered a relic of the Western past, a set of thinly veiled barbaric practices largely abandoned in the process of civilization. As G. Geltner argues, however, the infliction of bodily pain was not necessarily typical for earlier societies, nor has it vanished from modern penal theory, policy, and practice. To the contrary, corporal punishment still thrives today thanks to its capacity to define otherness efficiently and unambiguously. Challenging a number of common myths and misconceptions about physical punishment’s importance over the centuries, Flogging Others offers a new perspective on modernization and Western identity.

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