![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Joanna will be joined by Jude Kelly CBE ( The WOW Foundation), Marai Larasi ( Imkaan and End Violence Against Women Coalition), Dr Rhea Sookdeosingh (Public Engagement, Shameless! London), and Maisha Sumah ( SheWalksInValue) in a conversation between artists, activists and academics on boundary-crossing global approaches to countering sexual violence.ĭisgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. ![]() On October 7th, the SHaME Project (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters) will be celebrating the release of Principal Investigator Joanna Bourke’s new book, Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence, published by Reaktion Books. ![]()
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