Joanna Bourke

Joanna Bourke is an Irish-Australian historian and professor at Birkbeck, University of London, specialising in the history of violence, emotions and the body. She has written extensively on subjects from war and fear to pain and sexual violence. Disgrace, available as an audiobook and book, examines the history and politics of sexual violence with scholarly rigour and compassionate attention. Bourke's work is essential reading and listening for anyone seeking to understand these difficult subjects.