Joanna Bourke

Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual violence varies widely across time and place, from nineteenth-century peasant women in Ireland who were abducted as a way of forcing marriage, to date-raped high-school students in twentieth-century America, and from girls and women violated by Russian soldiers in 1945 to Dalit women raped by...

Loving Animals by Joanna Bourke and Tom Moore delves into the modern history of bestiality, a subject often regarded as one of the last taboos. Despite its controversial nature, the topic is surprisingly prevalent in various forms of media, including books, films, plays, paintings, and photographs. What does it truly mean to love animals? Renowned historian Joanna Bourke examines the...