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JOANNA BOURKE
Blogs
Here are my latest blogs! Enjoy.
Feb 5, 202421 min read
A (very short) Global History of Sexual Violence
This is a short piece from my book, Disgrace (Reaktion Books, 2022) Sexual violence: it is a difficult subject to talk about. There is...
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Feb 5, 202431 min read
AIDS: A History
Between 25 and 40 million people worldwide have died as a result of opportunistic infections arising from AIDS or Acquired...
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Feb 5, 202418 min read
Monogamy: A History
Why is monogamy such a big deal? What can a history of fidelity and infidelity reveal about the changing rights, duties, and social...
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Feb 5, 202420 min read
Sexual Perversion: A History
What do we mean when we talk about the ‘perversions’? Who gets to decide what is ‘normal’ or ‘abnormal’? The concept of ‘perversion’ is...
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Feb 5, 202419 min read
Sexual Pleasure: A History
Throughout human history, sexual danger has regulated social lives and subjectivities. From the ‘yellow press’ of the late nineteenth...
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