Sexual Violence

Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society

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Society, Sex, Scandal, Education, History

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Definitions of what can and cannot be described as sexual violence vary widely across time and place. In 48 countries around the world today, for example, men cannot be prosecuted for sexually assaulting their wives.

So what can a global history, comparing the differing interpretations of victims, survivors and perpetrators from different societies, tell us about sexual violence? And how might it help us to move forward towards a violence free world?

In this episode, Kate is joined by Joanna Bourke, author of ‘Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence’ and professor at Birkbeck University to answer these questions.

*WARNING this episode contains discussions of sexual violence*

Produced by Charlotte Long and Sophie Gee. Mixed by Thomas Ntinas.

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0:00.0	Hello, lovely betwixters. This is Kate Lister. I am actually giving you quite a serious content warning for this particular episode
0:06.9	Because today we're talking about the history of sexual violence. This is an important subject
0:12.0	But it's a difficult one and for obvious reasons this just may not be something that you want to listen to today
0:17.2	So please just give this one a skip. No problem at all. I'll catch you on the next one
0:24.6	In the Western world one in five women will be sexually assaulted in their lifetime
0:29.2	And one in eight men and it's worth noting that these estimates are very conservative
0:34.6	Sexual violence is it's everywhere. It's in a multitude of contexts and situations
0:40.1	But for each person who's attacked their insight their understanding their experience of what happened to them
0:46.8	Will be very different. But for each person who is attacked their insight and understanding of the event will be different
0:54.6	So what can we gain from a global study of sexual violence?
0:59.4	And can we bring all these experiences together?
1:03.3	Today betwixtersheets I'm joined by Joanna Burke to try and find out
1:11.0	So hello and welcome today to professor Joanna Burke
1:15.6	Thank you so much for joining me betwixtersheets. I'm really really happy to join you
1:19.9	I'm a great fan of betwixtersheets. Are you? Oh, that's so lovely. Thank you so much
1:25.8	It's a real pleasure to have you here today your work is just it's incredible and the subject that we're talking about today
1:32.8	That the global history of sexual violence that it's a heavy subject. It's an important subject
1:39.2	It's one that we need to talk about but as a place to start is what made you want to write this book?
1:45.2	Well, I mean basically I'm an historian of violence and that all my books have been based on some aspects or
1:51.8	human in humanity to other humans and
1:55.2	Sexual violence just kept coming up all the time when I was working on warfare
2:00.2	There was so much sexual violence and warfare
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