Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence

Looking across time and the globe, a critical history of sexual violence—what causes it and how we overcome it.

Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. 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...