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  • Loving Animals

    On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abhorrent, it is remarkable how many books, films, plays, paintings and photographs depict the subject. So what does loving animals mean? In this book the renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the modern history of sex between humans and animals.Bourke looks at the changing meanings of ‘bestiality’ and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Story of Pain

    From Prayer to Painkillers

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • Disgrace

    Global Reflections on Sexual Violence

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    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 by men of higher ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Deep Violence

    Military Violence, War Play, and the Social Life of Weapons

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the declaration of the First World War, and with it comes a deluge of books, documentaries, feature films and radio programs. We will hear a great deal about the horror of the battlefield. Bourke acknowledges wider truths: war is unending and violence is deeply entrenched in our society. But it doesn't have to be this way. This book equips readers with an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Five Evil Women

    Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Why do certain women become icons of evil? This book offers the first comparative, non-sensationalist account of five of the most reviled women in the modern Anglophone world: Myra Hindley, Rosemary West, Aileen Wuornos, Karla Homolka and Karla Faye Tucker. It examines their lives, crimes and cultural reception in the UK, USA and Canada, asking how violence committed by women is understood, judged ... Read more

    $22.59 USD

  • What It Means to Be Human

    Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    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 fact, their status was worse than that of animals: regulations prohibiting cruelty against dogs, horses, and cattle were significantly more punitive than laws against cruelty to women. The Earnest Englishwoman ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Birkbeck

    200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Series series History of Universities Monographs
    Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educated working people to the present day. Joanna Bourke writes a lively history of the institution, and how it contributed to the shaping of modern British higher education. Two hundred years ago, Birkbeck was founded as the London Mechanics' Institution ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Resilience

    Militaries and Militarization

    Edited by Joanna Bourke, Robin May Schott ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores the concept of ‘resilience’ in the context of militaries and militarization. Focusing on the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia, and continental Europe, it argues that, post-9/11, there has been a shift away from ‘trauma’ and towards ‘resilience’ in framing and understanding human responses to calamitous events. The contributors to this volume show how resilience-speech has been ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

  • Agricultural Commercialization, Gender Equality and the Right to Food

    Insights from Ghana and Cambodia

    Edited by Joanna Bourke Martignoni, Christophe Gironde, Christophe Golay, Elisabeth Prügl, Dzodzi Tsikata ...
    Series series Earthscan Food and Agriculture
    This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food perspective.Agricultural commercialization, involving not only the shift to selling crops and buying inputs but also the commodification of land and labour, has always been controversial. Strategies for commercialization have often reinforced and exacerbated inequalities, been blind to gender differences ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960

    Gender, Class and Ethnicity

    by Prof Joanna Bourke, Joanna Bourke ...
    Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the home, the marketplace, the locality and the nation to assess how the subjective identity of the 'working class' in Britain has been maintained through seventy years of radical social, cultural and economic change. She argues that class identity ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Disgrace

    Global Reflections on Sexual Violence

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Narrated by Zehra Jane Naqvi ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 16 min

    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 ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Eyewitness 1900-1949

    Voices from the BBC Archive

    by Joanna Bourke ...
    Narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith ...

    Unabridged

    22 hours 21 min

    Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the first half of the 20th Century, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith.The events of 1900-1949 are described by the people who saw them happen, from the death of Queen Victoria and accession of Edward VII through the First World War, the sinking of the Titanic, the General Strike and the Great Depression, to the Second ... Read more

    $21.84 USD