But let me get the criticisms out of the way first. Suurpaa and Hoikkala have accommodated a diverse collection of material but, regrettably, this has remained largely unconnected: the book would have benefited from a concluding chapter by the editors drawing together the new ideas and themes that emerge in individual contributions.
Moreover, the book lacks balance: there are initially short, pithy empirically based chapters that do not prepare the reader for the lengthy highly theorised chapter at the end on violence and gender. This chapter dwells on a range of methodological considerations, which are to be welcomed, but which are a very different contribution to the debate from those that precede it.
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