Joanna Bourke

JOANNA BOURKE is a Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London and an active contributor to radio, journalism, and television. She is author of several books, including What It Means to Be Human, Rape: Sex, Violence, History and Fear: A Cultural History, which was shortlisted for Mind Book of the Year in 2006. She lives in London.

She is the author of:

Deep Violence: Military Violence, War Play, and the Social Life of Weapons
Fear: A Cultural History
Rape: Sex, Violence, History
What It Means to Be Human: Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present