Rape Revisited: Joanna Bourke reflects on historicizing sexual violence for Women's History Review

SHaME Director Ruth Beecher sat down with Principal Investigator Joanna Bourke to reflect on two of her groundbreaking works on sexual violence, Rape (2007) and Disgrace (2022), for Women's History Review.
Joanna speaks about topics ranging from the complexities of medicalisation of sexual violence, to the place of rage and optimism in activism and scholarship, to the centrality of intersectionality in her work.
This interview is part of a special issue for Women's History Review co-edited by Dr Ruth Beecher and Dr Stephanie Wright: shame.bbk.ac.uk/blog/historic...
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