Jacqueline Rose is a feminist thinker whose books include: Sexuality in the Field of Vision and The Last Resistance (both Verso Radical Thinkers), The Haunting of Sylvia Plath, Women in Dark Times, Mothers – an essay on love and cruelty, the novel Albertine, and most recently, On Violence and On Violence Against Women. She is co-director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London, co-founder of Independent Jewish Voices in the UK and a Fellow of the British Academy.