Why Do You Use The Word Victim Rather Than Survivor?

A question from the lecture 'A Global History of Sexual Violence' by Joanna Bourke

Joanna Bourke

Professor Joanna Bourke

Professor of Rhetoric

Professor Bourke is Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College.

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