Joanna Bourke: 4 books
Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960
Gender, Class and Ethnicity
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2008
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...
by Joanna Bourke
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
From the author of The Story of Pain. “This deeply scholarly work is lively and challenging in equal measure, and rewarding throughout” (The Boston Globe).
In 1872, a woman known only as “An Earnest Englishwoman” published a letter titled “Are Women Animals?” in which she protested...
The Story of Pain
From Prayer to Painkillers
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
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:...
Deep Violence
Military Violence, War Play, and the Social Life of Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
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...