A critical, comparative history of five notorious women branded icons of evil.

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

Fear — the word, itself, conjures the appropriate response. With a dark cacophony of associations...

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

In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Earnest Englishwoman' published a letter titled 'Are Women Ani...

Integrating a variety of historical approaches and methods, Joanna Bourke looks at the constructi...

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...

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

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

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

Based on letters, diaries and oral histories, this title explores the impact of the 'war to end a...

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...

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

Originally published: London: Virago Press, 2014.

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

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

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

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