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Joanna Bourke

Joanna Bourke is professor of history at Birkbeck College, University of London. Among her books are An Intimate History of Killing (Granta, 2000), Fear: A Cultural History (Virago, 2005), and Rape. A History from the 1860s to the Present (Virago, 2007).

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Women, men and rape

The social crisis of sexual violence against women is matched by legal failures in addressing it. Both policy and imagination need to change, says Joanna Bourke.

The suicide-bomber's mission

The suicide-bomb is a terrifying phenomenon but also a mysterious one, and as Joanna Bourke explains, most of our assumptions about it are wrong.