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Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence

by Joanna Bourke - £20.00  Reaktion Books (2022)
hardback    ISBN 13: 9781789145991 | ISBN 10: 1789145996

The first truly global history of sexual violence, by acclaimed historian 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 men of higher castes today. It delves into the factors that facilitate violence – including institutions, ideologies and practices – but also gives voice to survivors and activists, drawing inspiration from their struggles.
 
Ultimately, Joanna Bourke intends to forge a transnational feminism that will promote a more harmonious, equal and rape- and violence-free world.

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