Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 17 results for “joanna bourke”
Skip side bar filters

  • 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

    $32.99 CAD

  • 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

    $29.99 CAD

  • 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

    $8.99 CAD

  • 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

    $39.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rape: A History From 1860 To The Present

    by Professor Joanna Bourke ...
    Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sexual violence.Rape - A History looks at the perception of rape, both in the mass media and the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • 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

    $19.99 CAD

  • 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

    $24.99 CAD

  • 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

    $18.39 CAD

  • 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

    $83.81 CAD

  • What It Means To Be Human

    Reflections from 1791 to the present

    by Professor Joanna Bourke ...
    In 1872, a woman known only as 'An Ernest Englishwoman' published an open letter entitled 'Are women animals?', in which she protested the fact that women were not treated as fully human. In reality, 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.What does it mean to be ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Wounding the World

    How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives

    by Professor Joanna Bourke ...
    Wars are frequently justified 'in our name'. Militarist values and practices co-opt us, permeating our language, invading our dream space, entertaining us at the movies or in front of game consoles. Our taxes pay for those war machines. Our loved ones are killed and maimed.With killing now an integral part of the entertainment industry in video games and Hollywood films, war has become mainstream ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Fear

    A Cultural History

    by Professor Joanna Bourke ...
    Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is hauntingly specific: flames searing patterns on the ceiling, a hydrogen bomb, a terrorist. More often, anxiety overwhelms us from some source within: there is an irrational panic about venturing outside, a dread of failure, a premonition of doom.In this astonishing book we encounter the fears and anxieties ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD