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Disgrace - Global Reflections on Sexual Violence by Joanna Bourke
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 ...Show more
FEAR A CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE TWENTIETH by BOURKE JOANNA
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Fear : A Cultural History by Joanna Bourke
$26.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 o ...Show more
Rape by Joanna Bourke
$69.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 sex ...Show more
Rape: A history from 1860 to the present by Joanna Bourke
$35.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 sex ...Show more
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers by Joanna Bourke (Professor of History, Birkbeck, University of London)
$40.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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: ...Show more
War and Art A Visual History of Modern Conflict by Joanna Bourke
$99.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design
In times of crisis, we often turn to artists for truth-telling and memory-keeping. There is no greater crisis than war, and in this sumptuously illustrated volume, we find a comprehensive visual, cultural, and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been represented by artists. Cover ...Show more
What it Means to be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present by Joanna Bourke
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 ca ...Show more
Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play Invades Our Lives by Joanna Bourke
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 ...Show more
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