'Working Class Cultures in Britain' uniquely approaches the social history of the working class f...

Whether we like it or not, an atmosphere of fear pervades modern culture. In America, each day is...

Joanna Bourke takes the issue of rape out of the academic ghettos and distills the truth so often...

'Avoiding the impenetrable prose often found in academic books, this deeply scholarly work is liv...

This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food pers...

This book explores the concept of 'resilience' in the context of militaries and militarization. F...

This book explores the concept of 'resilience' in the context of militaries and militarization. F...

This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food pers...

Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual viole...

The characteristic act of men at war is not dying, but killing. Politicians and military historia...

Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the first hal...

In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are wo...

Edward Casey, an underfed, under-sized and semi-literate Irish Cockney from Canning Town, was no ...

Compiled by a team of leading historians, this is a wonderfully rich, lavishly illustrated histor...

Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abho...

Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving bir...

Originally published: London: Virago Press, 2014.

This sumptuously illustrated volume, edited by eminent war historian Joanna Bourke, offers a comp...

Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving bir...

* A fascinating, thought-provoking book on the emotive subject of rape from the highly acclaimed ...

This textbook looks at the construction of class within the intimate contexts of the body, the ho...

Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a tim...

Il contatto sessuale con gli animali è uno degli ultimi tabù del mondo contemporaneo e, pur essen...