Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has published seven books, on Irish history, gender and "the body", the history of psychological thought, modern warfare, the emotions, and sexual violence.

Her books have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish. "An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare"(Granta) won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for 1998 and the Wolfson History Prize for 2000. Her book entitled "Fear: A Cultural History" was published by Virago in 2005. Her history of rapists in Century 19-20, entitled "Rape: A History from 1860s to the Present", was published by Virago in September 2007.

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