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Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class ...

Working Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class ...

Prof 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 ...
The Second World War: A People's History

The Second World War: A People's History

Joanna Bourke

In The Second World War: A People's History, Joanna Bourke uncovers the grim stories of death and destruction lost behind those statistics.
Irish University Review

Irish University Review

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Tudor Balinisteanu Otherworldly Women and Neurotic Fairies: The Cultural Construction of Women in Angela Bourke's Writing This essay is concerned with the relationship between stories and social reality in Angela Bourke's writing. Bourke ...
Rape: A History From 1860 To The Present

Rape: A History From 1860 To The Present

Joanna Bourke

She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sexual violence.
Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and ...

Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change, and ...

Joanna Bourke

This book examines the lives of Irish women between 1890 and 1914, tracing the shift of their labor out of the fields and into the home.
Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play ...

Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play ...

Joanna Bourke

But it doesn't have to be this way. This book equips readers with an understanding of the history, culture and politics of warfare in order to interrogate and resist an increasingly violent world.
Fear: A Cultural History

Fear: A Cultural History

Joanna Bourke

From fear of the crowd to agoraphobia, from battle experiences to fear of nuclear attack, from cancer to AIDS, this is an utterly original insight into the mindset of the twentieth century from one of most brilliant historians and thinkers ...
Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War

Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War

Joanna Bourke

Impact on the male body of the War to end all wars. Issues such as malingering, dismemberment and male bonding.
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers

The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers

Joanna Bourke

Focusing on the English-speaking world, this book tells the story of pain since the eighteenth century, addressing fundamental questions about the experience and nature of suffering over the last three centuries.
An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in ...

An Intimate History of Killing: Face to Face Killing in ...

Joanna Bourke

A examination of war in the twentieth century looks at the men who fought and how they changed from ordinary citizens into efficient and enthusiastic killers, as well as how they returned to normal life afterwards.
Rape: Sex, Violence, History

Rape: Sex, Violence, History

Joanna Bourke

An analysis of rape evaluates its history, cultural effects, and motivations while examining perspectives of rape as a social construct as well as the therapeutic standpoint that rape is about power, in a report that focuses on the act's ...
Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present Day

Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present Day

Joanna Bourke

64 Joseph Mallia, 'Violence by Female Teens Growing at Alarming Rate', Boston Herald, 9 March 1 997, 1 , and Gini Sikes, 8 Ball Chick: A Year in the Violent World of Girl Gangsters (London, 1997), 101—2. 65 Gini Sikes, 8 Ball Chicks: A ...
Red Ink: A Native American Student Publication

Red Ink: A Native American Student Publication

University of Arizona. American Indian Graduate Center

... Cunt Carroll WHITE FAWN'S DEVOTION Review by Joanna Hearne EVANGELINE Review by Joanna Hearne IT STARTS WITH A WHISPER Review by Joanna Hearne ITAM HAKIM, HOPIIT Review by Joanna Hearne NATURALLY NATIVE ...
The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers

The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers

Joanna Bourke

William Fairlie Clarke, A Manual of the Practice of Surgery (London: Henry Renshaw, 1865), 314. In the 1887 edition, 'a moment's fortitude' was changed to ' a minute's fortitude': William Fairlie Clarke, Fairlie Clarke's Manual of the Practice of ...
Girl with a Camera: Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer: A Novel

Girl with a Camera: Margaret Bourke-White, Photographer: A Novel

Carolyn Meyer

In this historical novel, noted writer Carolyn Meyer deftly captures the daring and passionate life of photographer Margaret Bourke-White.
The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta

The Atlas of Breeding Birds of Alberta

Glen Peter Semenchuk

... Storms EVENT VOLUNTEERS AND OFFICE ASSISTANCE Gordon Armitage Louis Beens Joe Bourke Natalie Bourke ... Karen Aldred, S.E. Alexander, David Allan, Kim Allan, Barry Allan, James Allen, Daniel Allen, Robina Allen, M. Allen, ...
Joanna Trollope: The Other Family & A Village Affair: Ebook ...

Joanna Trollope: The Other Family & A Village Affair: Ebook ...

Joanna Trollope

This special 2-for-1 collection features two classic Joanna Trollope novels: The Other Family and A Village Affair.
Random Acts: A Joanna Brady and Ali Reynolds Novella

Random Acts: A Joanna Brady and Ali Reynolds Novella

J. A. Jance

From New York Times bestselling author J. A. JANCE comes an all- new novella, in which Sheriff Joanna Brady and investigator Ali Reynolds join forces to solve a crime that has hit dangerously close to home Sheriff Joanna Brady has a lot on ...
On Joanna Russ

On Joanna Russ

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Farah Mendlesohn. 11 Violent Women, Womanly Violence 11 Violent Women, Womanly Violence Joanna Russ's Joanna Russ's Femmes Fatales Femmes Fatales JASON P. VEST. In. 1974, Philip K. Dick published an anti-abortion story titled ...
Five Gold Rings

Five Gold Rings

Joanna Laurens

Rolling balls in leftover dough we made shapes in spare time. So. Simon goes, he does. He goes. He goes off away ... to yourself and pretend to have much? Pause. HENRY: If SimonDaniel knew they would leave me all 58 JOANNA LAURENS.
Rattlesnake Crossing: A Joanna Brady Mystery

Rattlesnake Crossing: A Joanna Brady Mystery

J. A. Jance

Sheriff Joanna Brady is the law in Cochise County, and she will never allow her personal trials to interfere with the job she was elected to do—especially now that death has invaded Bisbee, Arizona, and has shattered the small desert town ...
Cozy Christmas Collection of Mysteries

Cozy Christmas Collection of Mysteries

Joanna Campbell Slan

Lost and Found Holiday Gifts: A Cara Mia Delgatto Novella by Joanna Campbell Slan Santa isn't the only one who delivers presents during the holidays.
Further Letters of Joanna Baillie

Further Letters of Joanna Baillie

Joanna Baillie

... Wendy Parkins, Shef Rogers, Paul Tankard, and Lyn Tribble for their advice and support. Liz Lammers, our departmental administrator, has always been helpful and supportive. Thanks to the excellent staff at the University of Otago Library, ...
Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World

Pass it On: Five Stories That Can Change the World

Joanna Macy

Gathered on her travels to India, Russia, Australia, and Tibet, these stories give testament to Joanna Macy’s belief that either humankind awakens to a new and deeper understanding of our interconnectedness with our planet and all its ...
Joanna Lumley: The Biography (Large Print 16pt)

Joanna Lumley: The Biography (Large Print 16pt)

Tim Ewbank

This affectionate and immensely readable biography charts the remarkable life of Joanna Lumley, who has been an endlessly fascinating figure for over four decades, since becoming a top model in ''The Swinging Sixties''.
Supermarket Confidential: The Secrets of One-Stop Shopping ...

Supermarket Confidential: The Secrets of One-Stop Shopping ...

Joanna Pruess

Joanna Pruess offers the essential guide to doing just that, with indispensable information about how to buy, store, and cook outstanding meals using ingredients found in today's supermarket aisles, and more than 300 tried-and-trusted ...
International Internet Law

International Internet Law

Joanna Kulesza

Joanna Kulesza. Routledge Research in IT and E-Commerce Law Titles in this series include: Lawof Electronic Commercial Transactions Contemporary Issues in the EU, US and China Faye Fangfei Wang Online Dispute Resolution for ...
Rethinking China in the 1950s

Rethinking China in the 1950s

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(Sören Urbansky) Joanna McMillan, Sex, Science and Morality in China. London and New York: Routledge 2006, pp. 187, (ISBN 0-415-37632-7) Joanna McMillan's work provides a comprehensive overview of the mainstream discourse on ...
Comparative Counter-Terrorism Law

Comparative Counter-Terrorism Law

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Dominika Drozdz, PhD (VI); Dorota Głowacka, MA (VII); Joanna Połatyn8ska, PhD; Marek Wasin8ski, PhD (IX,X); Joanna Kulesza, PhD (XI). Final drafting of this Report – Prof. Piotr Daranowski, PhD. 1 Convention on Offences and Certain  ...

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