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36 produkter
Dismembering the Male
Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War
Häftad, 1999
457 kr
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That notions of femininity were seriously disrupted during the First World War has become obvious in recent years. But what happened to masculinity at the same time? Based on letters, diaries and oral histories, Dismembering the Male explores the impact of the ‘war to end all wars’ on the male …
Story of Pain
From Prayer to Painkillers
E-bok, 2014
114 kr
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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 of Pain
From Prayer to Painkillers
E-bok, 2014
114 kr
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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 …
Birkbeck
200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People
E-bok, 2022
453 kr
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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 …
Birkbeck
200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People
E-bok, 2022
453 kr
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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 …
Birkbeck
200 Years of Radical Learning for Working People
Inbunden, 2022
630 kr
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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 …
Husbandry to Housewifery
Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland 1890-1914
Inbunden, 1993
940 kr
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This book examines the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914, tracing the shift of their labour out of the fields and into the home. Joanna Bourke shows how their position within the employment market deteriorated: married women came to be increasingly dependent on their husbands' earnings, …
The Story of Pain
From Prayer to Painkillers
Inbunden, 2014
467 kr
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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 …
The Story of Pain
From Prayer to Painkillers
Häftad, 2017
160 kr
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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 …
Wounding the World
How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives
E-bok, 2014
45 kr
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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 …
Wounding the World
How Military Violence and War-Play Invade our Lives
Häftad, 2015
191 kr
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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 …
Fear
A Cultural History
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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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 …
Rape: A History From 1860 To The Present
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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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 …
Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960
Gender, Class and Ethnicity
Av Prof Joanna Bourke, Joanna Bourke
Inbunden, 1993
2588 kr
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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 …
Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960
Gender, Class and Ethnicity
Av Prof Joanna Bourke, Joanna Bourke
Häftad, 1993
667 kr
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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 …
An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare
Häftad, 1999
339 kr
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What It Means To Be Human
Reflections from 1791 to the present
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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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, …
Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960
Gender, Class and Ethnicity
Av Joanna Bourke, Prof Joanna Bourke
E-bok, 2008
785 kr
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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 …
Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960
Gender, Class and Ethnicity
Av Joanna Bourke, Prof Joanna Bourke
E-bok, 2008
768 kr
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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 …
What It Means to Be Human
Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present
E-bok, 2011
196 kr
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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 …
What It Means to Be Human: Historical Reflections from the 1800s to the Present
Häftad, 2013
306 kr
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War and Art
A Visual History of Modern Conflict
Inbunden, 2017
551 kr
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This sumptuously illustrated volume, edited by eminent war historian Joanna Bourke, offers a comprehensive visual, cultural and historical account of the ways in which armed conflict has been represented in art. Covering the last two centuries, the book shows how the artistic portrayal of war has …
Eyewitness 1900-1949
Voices from the BBC Archive
Ljudbok, 2017
210 kr
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Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the first half of the 20th Century, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith. The events of 1900-1949 are described by the people who saw them happen, from the death of Queen Victoria and accession of Edward VII through the …
Eyewitness: 1950-1999
Voices from the BBC Archives
Ljudbok, 2017
217 kr
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Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the latter half of the 20th Century, narrated by Tim Pigott-Smith. The events of 1950-1999 are described by the people who saw them happen, from the Festival of Britain in 1951 through to dawn of a new millennium at …
Loving Animals
On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
Inbunden, 2020
247 kr
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Sexual contact with non-human 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. In this book renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the history of …
Disgrace
Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
Inbunden, 2022
301 kr
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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, …
Five Evil Women
Hindley, West, Wuornos, Homolka, Tucker
Inbunden, 2026
232 kr
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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 …
Rape: A History From 1860 To The Present
Häftad, 2008
174 kr
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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 …
