Jana Byars is the Academic Director of Netherlands: International Perspectives on Sexuality and Gender. Ultimately, Joanna Bourke intends to forge a transnational feminism that will promote a more harmonious, equal, and rape- and violence-free world. Through a unique combination of critical, posthumanist, and educational theories, the authors engage in a surreal journey into how social movements are.

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. 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.

What It Means to Be Human Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present by Joanna Bourke. Exploring the legacy of more than two centuries, this meticulously researched and illuminating book of history examines the ever shifting line drawn between the human and the. Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence(Reaktion, 2022) is the first truly global history of sexual violence. What it means to be human by Joanna Bourke, 2013, Counterpoint Press edition, in English. What does it mean to be 'human' rather than 'animal' If the Earnest Englishwoman had turned her gaze to the previous century, her critique could have applied to slaves. Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence-what causes it and how we overcome it.

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