She is a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular correspondent for newspapers. Her 40-CD audio history of Britain, entitled “Eyewitness” won the Gold for the Best Audio Production for Volume 1910-1919, the Gold for the Best Audio Production for Volume 1940-1949, and the Gold for the Most Original Audio for all 10 volumes. An Intimate History of Killing won the Wolfson Prize and the Fraenkel Prize. How are people excluded from political personhood How does one become entitled to rights The distinction between the two concepts is a blurred line, permanently under construction. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Greek. In this fascinating account, Joanna Bourke addresses the profound question of what it means to be human rather than animal.

Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present (2008). In 1872, a woman known only as An Earnest Englishwoman published a letter titled Are Women Animals in which she protested against the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In 2014, she was the author of The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers (OUP) and Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play are Invading our Lives(Virago, November 2014). What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present (2011). Her book, What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present, was published by Virago in 2011. Among others, she is the author of Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain, and the Great War (1996), An Intimate History of Killing (1999), Fear: A Cultural History (2005) and Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present (2007). She is the prize-winning author of eleven books, including histories on modern warfare, military medicine, psychology and psychiatry, the emotions and rape. Joanna Bourke is a Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London.

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