JOANNA BOURKE
Publications
Here are my publications. Many of them have links and I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did researching and writing them.
Books
Monograph
What did it mean to be 'working class' between 1890 and 1960? What is the relationship between class, gender, and ethnicity?
Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity
London: Routedge, 1994
Monograph; translated into Italian
Sexual contact with non-human animals is one of the last taboos. This book explores shifting understandings of bestiality and zoophilia, including religious, medical, and cultural tropes. It draws on queer theory, post-human philosophy, disability studies, and the history of the senses.
Loving Animals: Reflections on Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Postmodern Love
London: Reaktion Books, 2019
Monograph
What were the lives of Irish women like, between 1890 and 1914? This book traces the shift of their labour to of the fields and into the home.
Husbandry to Housewifery. Women, Economic Change, and Housework in Ireland 1890-191
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993
Edited with Robin May Schott
'Resilience' has replaced 'trauma' as the catchword of late modernity. How can we explain its popularity and what does the concept reveal about militarism?
Resilience: Militaries and Militarization
London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022
Edited volume
Edward Casey was no war hero. His account of four years service with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers reveal his personal and sexual insecurities during his military training and war service.
The Misfit Soldier: Edward Casey's War Story, 1914-1918
Cork: Cork University Press, 1999
Forty CDs in 10 volumes (one for each decade) tracing the history of twentieth-century Britain.
Eyewitness: An Audio History of Twentieth-Century Britain
London: BBC, 2004-5
Major Audio
Project
Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 20.1 (2020). Open access: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14434318.2020.1764226
'Cruel Visions: Reflections on Artists and Atrocities'
The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy, 1.2 (2020). Prepublication draft: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/31609/
'Sadism: A History of Non-Consensual Sexual Cruelty'
in Peter Stearns (ed.), The Routledge History of Death Since 1800 (New York: Routledge, 2020). Details: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429028274-20/premature-burial-mysteries-death-joanna-bourke
'Premature Burial and the Mysteries of Death'
Past and Present (2020). Open Access: https://academic.oup.com/past/article/246/Supplement_15/92/6101631
'Becoming the "Natural" Mother: Power, Emotions, and the Labour of Childbirth Between 1947 and 1967'
in Nick Bouras and George Ikkos (eds.), Mind, State, and Society: Psychiatry and Metal Health in Britain (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021). Open Access: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/mind-state-and-society/historical-perspectives-on-mental-health-and-psychiatry/93E5F3EE5E829C40528B74D0379EB9D1
'Historical Perspectives on Mental Health and Psychiatry'
in Philip Dwyer and Mark Micale (eds.), On Violence in History (London: Berghahn, 2021).
'The Rise and Rise of Sexual Violence'
in Mary Jane Jacob and Jenny Dally (eds.), Magdalena Abakanowicz. Writings and Conversations (Milan: Skira, 2021)
'Magdalena Abakanowicz: Am I My Brother’s Keeper?'
in Rob Boddice and B. Hitzer (eds.), Feeling Dis-Ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness (London: Bloomsbury, 2022). Draft at https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/46662/1/46662.pdf
'Forensic Sense: Sexual Violence, Medical Professionals, and the Senses'
Journal of War and Culture Studies, 15.1 (2022). Open Access: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8884252/
'Military Sexual Trauma: Gender, Military Cultures, and the Medicalization of Abuse in Contemporary America'
Journal of Australian Studies, 46.3 (2022). Prepublication draft: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/46716/
’"A Deed of the Darkest Violence": Sexually Motivated Crime and the Emergence of Sadism in Australian Psychiatry'
in The Emerald International Handbook of Feminist Perspectives on Women’s Acts of Violence (Emerald Publishers, 2023). Link: https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/978-1-80382-255-620231025/full/html