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).

Women, men and rape

Sensuality is a source of delight. At least that was what I had assumed as a young child - before sex educationalists in school associated sex with images of disgusting

By Joanna Bourke

/ 19 Oct 2007

The suicide-bomber's mission

This morning, 14 June 2005, media headlines tell a series of melancholy and not untypical stories. A suicide-bomber with explosives strapped to his belt killed at least nineteen people outside

By Joanna Bourke

/ 13 Jun 2005