Joanna Bourke

Reviews of my Research
Authored Articles and Reviews
Radio and Television Interviews
Festival Presentations

1. Reviews of my Research

Lynne Segal, "Men, Monsters and the Women who 'Ask for It'", THE, 7 December 2010,

"Fear and Anxiety", Dutch television, 25 May 2010

Melanie Newman, "'Rape Fantasy' Author Aims to Suppress Negative Review", The Times Higher Education, 19 January 2010

Nalalia Aspesi, "Una Storia Violenza Sessuale", La Repubblica, 31 Marzo 2009, 43

"Rape", Donna Moderna (Italian), February 2009

"Rape", Vanity Fair Italy, February 2009

"La Guerre en ek Siglo XX: Viaje al Corazón de las Tinieblas", Clio, 2009, 78-83

Rita de Cássia Bovo de Loiola, "Fear", Galileu Magazine (Brazil), December 2009

"Joanna Bourke", El Pais Semanal (Madrid), 2009, 28-33

"Fear", Galileu Magazine (Brazil), December 2009

"Rape", Luita, 2009

"Matar como placer", El Periodico de Catalunya, 3 November 2008

Ian Jack, "The Only Thing We Have to Fear is Not Fearing Enough", The Guardian, 11 October 2008

Heather Thompson, "And God Made Woman", The Observer, 27 July 2008

Daniel Snowman, "Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present", History Today, February 2008

Alex Renton, "The Rape Epidemic", The Observer, 2 December 2007

Isabella Thomas, "Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present", The Sunday Times, 18 November 2007

"Triumphs and tribulations", The Guardian, 24 November 2007

Jean Seaton, "An Endless Story of Violence", The Guardian, 20 October 2007

Libby Brooks, "British Women's Right to Choose is Under Covert Attack", The Guardian, 17 October 2007

Vic Groskop, "How Do They Still Get Away With it?", The Observer, 14 October 2007

Joan Smith, "Rape: A History from 1860 to the Present", The Times, 12 October 2007

Eithne Farry, "Why Aren't We More Outraged?", The Guardian, 5 October 2007

2. Authored Articles and Reviews

Review of Linda Polman's War Games: The Story of Aid and War in Modern Times, The Times, 8 May 2010

Review of Bernhard Schlink, Guilt About the Past, The Times, 27 February 2010

Review of Ana Carden-Coyne's Reconstructing the Body: Classicism, Modernism, and the First World War, History Today, 2010

Review of Daniel Jonah Goldhagen, Worse than War. Genocide, Eliminationism, and the Ongoing Assault on Humanity, The Times, 16 January 2010

"Apocalyptic Road Movie: The Road", The Lancet, 2 January 2010

"Treasures of Athens", History Today, December 2009

Review essay on "Historical Fiction", History Today, October 2009, 55

"Berlusconi danneggia l'onore degli uomini", L'Unità, 28 Agosto 2009, 16

"Antichrist", The Guardian, 16 July 2009

Review of Pieter Spierenburg, A History of Murder, History Today, June 2009

Review essay on Pieter Spierenburg's A History of Murder: Personal Violence in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Present, History Today, June 2009

"Women Beware Women", The Guardian, 30 May 2009

"Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Mental Illness and Modernism", The Lancet, 23 May 2009

"Silas Weir Mitchell's The Case of George Dedlow", The Lancet, 8 April 2009

"Fear and Hope", Cultural Creative Living, 15 February 2009

"Making Men Into Monsters?", BBC History Magazine, February 2009

"Bad Boys and Insects of Evil Examined", The Guardian, 24 January 2009

Review of Jeffrey Lockwood, Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War, The Times, 16 January 2009

"The Complexity of Medicine and War", The Lancet, 10 January 2009

Review of Robert Muchembled's Orgasm and the West. A History of Pleasure from the Sixteenth Century to the Present, History Today, January 2009, 66

Review of exhibition at the Wellcome Collection (London), "The Complexity of Medicine and War", The Lancet, 373 (10 January 2009), 113-114,

Review of Mark Honigsbaum, Living With Enza: The Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918, The Times, 24 October 2008

Review of Jennifer Heath (ed.), The Veil: Women Writers on its History, Lore, and Politics, The Times, 8 August 2008

"Making an Ending", The Guardian, 21 November 2008

"Another Battle Front", The Guardian, 11 November 2008

"The Easter Rising", The Guardian, 11 November 2008

Review of Kristin Bumiller, In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence, Times Higher Education, 3 July 2008, 44-5

Review of Michael Dobbs, One Minutes to Midnight: Kennedy, Khrushchev and Castro on the Brink of Nuclear War, The Times, 7 June 2008

"Mini-Skirt or Burka – My Choice", The Times, 8 March 2008

"Emergency Funding: An Important Step Forward", New Statesman, 19 March 2008

"Rape Myths Past and Present", New Statesman, 10 March 2008

"When Killing Had to Stop", New Statesman, 7 February 2008

"A Painting Fit for a President", The Guardian, 1 February 2008

Review of Sudhir Venkatesh, Gang Leader for a Day, The Times, 25 January 2008

Review of James Vernon, Hunger: A Modern History, The Times, 23 November 2007

"Tyranny in Disguise", The Guardian, 30 September 2007

"Can Terrorism Destroy Democracy?", The Guardian, 30 September 2007

"Is God Democratic?", The Guardian, 29 September 2007

"Why Bother to Vote?", The Guardian, 29 September 2007