Disgrace : global reflections on sexual violence / 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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bourke, Joanna (Author)
Language:English
Published: London : Reaktion Books, 2022.
Subjects:
Sex crimes.
Sex crimes > History.
Women > Violence against.
Women > Violence against > History.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:293 pages ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: The Global Crisis
  • Shame
  • (In)Justice
  • Gender Troubles
  • Conjugal Cruelty
  • Mothers and Monsters
  • Reckonings
  • Militarized Rape
  • Trauma
  • A Rape-Free World.