Joanna Bourke

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Overview
Overview
Biography
Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, (retired) and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is also the Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College. Bourke is the Principal Investigator of an interdisciplinary Wellcome Trust-funded project entitled ‘SHaME’ (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters, which explores medical and psychiatric aspects of sexual violence). SHaME is Directed by Dr Ruth Beecher. Bourke is the prize-winning author of fifteen books, as well as over 120 articles in academic journals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published "Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence" (also published by Chicago University Press) and Oxford University Press published "Birkbeck: 200 years of Radical Education for Working People". Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Greek.
Joanna Bourke is a New Zealander by birth. As a young child, she lived in New Zealand, Zambia, Solomon Island, and Haiti. She went to Auckland University (New Zealand) to do her BA and MA and, from there, to the Australian National University in Canberra to complete a doctorate on women in nineteenth-century Ireland. After brief posts in the 1980s and early 1990s at the Australian National University and Emmanuel College, Cambridge, she was appointed to Birkbeck College in 1992.
Her first book was "From Husbandry to Housewifery, a history of female labour in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century". After writing a book on the British working classes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries ("Working-Class Cultures in Britain 1860-1960"), her interests turned to the experiences of men and women in wartime. After a number of books on the cultural history of modern warfare (including "Dismembering the Male" and "An Intimate History of Killing"), she turned to the history of the emotions (especially fear: a book entitled "Fear: A Cultural History") and to the history of rape ("Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present"). More recently, she has published "What It Means To Be Human". In 2014, she published "The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers" and "Wounding the World. How Military Violence and War Games Invade Our Lives". She explores these topics through the lens of gender, intersectionalities, and subjectivities. In 2019, she was the author of "War and Art: A Visual History of Modern Conflicts". In 2020, she published "Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia, and Post-Human Love" (Reaktion Books). She is the Principal Investigator for an interdisciplinary, Wellcome Trust funded project SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters), which explores medical and psychiatric aspects of sexual violence from a global perspective. The first book from this project is entitled "Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence", published in 2022 by Reaktion Books and Chicago University Press.
Highlights
I am the Principal Investigator for the interdisciplinary, Wellcome Trust project SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters), which explores medical and psychiatric aspects of sexual violence globally. Because I have retired, the Director of SHaME is now Dr Ruth Beecher. See https://shame.bbk.ac.uk, twitter @shme_bbk and @bourke_joanna
I have written the history of Birkbeck for the College's bicentenary. See https://http://www.bbk.ac.uk/about-us/200th-anniversary/ and twitter @BBKKnowledge and @bourke_joanna
Office hours
I have taken early retirement.
Qualifications
- PhD, Australian National University, 1989
Web profiles
- Joanna Bourke's Birkbeck Website
- Sexual Harms + Medical Encounters Twitter
- SHaME's website
- Joanna Bourke Twitter
- History of Birkbeck Twitter
- History of Birkbeck Instagram
Administrative responsibilities
- Principal Investigator of SHaME
- Lead for the History of Birkbeck Bicentenary Book and Theses Project
Visiting posts
- Gresham Professor of Rhetoric, Gresham College, 09-2019 to 09-2023
- Global Innovation Chair, University of Newcastle (Australia), 01-2017 to 10-2020
Professional memberships
Fellow of the British Academy
Fellow of the Royal Historical Association
Honours and awards
- Council of the British Academy, The British Academy,
- Fellow of the British Academy, The British Academy,
- Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, Royal Historical Society,
- Birkbeck College Orator, Birkbeck College,
- Wolfson Prize for The Intimate History of Killing, Wolfson Foundation,
- Fraenkel Prize for The Intimate History of Killing, Fraenkel Foundation,
- 3 Golds for "Eyewitness. A History of Twentieth Century Britain" (1910-19, 1940-49, and "Most Original Overall"), Audio Society,
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Research
Research
Research interests
- Sexual Violence, historically and today
- Animals and human-animal relations
- Violence
- War, history of
- Emotions, history of (especially fear and hatred)
- Psychiatry, history of
- Medicine, history of
- The Body, history of
Research overview
Joanna Bourke is Professor of History at Birkbeck, University of London, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is also the Gresham Professor of Rhetoric (London, 2019-2023). She is the Principal Investigator on a five-year Wellcome Trust-funded project entitled “SHaME” (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters: October 2018 to September 2023). She is the prize-winning author of fourteen books, as well as over 100 articles in academic journals. Among others, she is the author of From Husbandry to Housewifery: Women, Economic Change and Housework in Ireland, 1890-1914 (1993), Dismembering the Male: Men’s Bodies, Britain, and the Great War (1996), An Intimate History of Killing (1999), Fear: A Cultural History(2005), Rape: A History from the 1860s to the Present (2007), and What it Means To Be Human: Reflections from 1791 to the Present was published in 2011. In 2014, she was the author of The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers and Wounding the World: How Military Violence and War-Play are Invading our Lives. In 2019, she published Loving Animals. In 2022, Reaktion Books published Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence (also published by Chicago University Press) and Oxford University Press published Birkbeck: 200 Years of Radical Education for Working People. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Russian, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Turkish, and Greek. Disgrace will be released as an audio book. An Intimate History of Killing won the Wolfson Prize and the Fraenkel Prize. Her 40-CD audio history of Britain, entitled “Eyewitness” won the Gold for the Best Audio Production for Volume 1910-1919, Gold for the Best Audio Production for Volume 1940-1949, and the Gold for the Most Original Audio for all 10 volumes. She is a frequent contributor to TV and radio shows, and a regular correspondent for newspapers.
Research Centres and Institutes
- Principal Investigator, SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters)
- Lead in writing the history, Birkbeck Bicentenary History
Research clusters and groups
- Mind and body
- Conflict and violence
- Public history
Research projects
Post doctoral staff
- Ruth Beecher
- Rhian Keyse
- George Severs
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Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching
Supervision
I welcome prospective PhDs and postdocs working on sexual violence, animal history, violence, sexuality, and war.
Recent or current PhD students:
A Microhistory of the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, 1963-2003
Birkbeck and the Politics of Adult Education, 1866-1920
Psychiatric Evidence in Court Proceedings for Sexual Violence Survivors
Pain, Emotion, Self, Subjectivities, and Insanity, 1880-1930
Rape Victims and Feminist Organisations in Paris Today
Degeneration Theory in Scandinavian Racial Sciences, 1880-1922
The Contribution of African and Caribbean Troops to the First World War
Since 2000, the following students of mine (sole supervisor in all cases, unless indicated) have been awarded PhDs:
21. Susanna Shapland, "Defining the Elephant: a History of Psychopathy, 1891-1959", 2018
20. Linda Maynard, “Brotherly Love in the Great War”, 2017
19. Steffan Blayney, "Health & Efficiency: Fatigue, the Science of Work, and the Working Body in Britain, c. 1870-1939", 2017
18. Neil Penlington, "Men and Marriage in England 1918-60: Consent, Celebration and Consummation", 2017
17. Jane Crellin, "Marion Post: New Deal Photographer, Femininity, and Racial Egalitarian, 1938-1941", 2017 (co-supervised with Professor John Howard, KCL), MPhil
16. Simon Jarrett, "The Road to Dr Down's Idiot Asylum: The Creation of the Idea of Intellectual Disability, 1700-1867", 2016
15. Hazel Croft, “War Neurosis and Civilian Mental Health in Britain during the Second World War”, 2016
14. Janet Weston, "Curing Sexual Deviance: Medical Approaches to Sexual Offenders in England, 1919-1959", 2015
13. Clare Makepeace, “’A Pseudo-Soldier’s Cross’”: The Subjectivities of British POWs Held in Germany and Italy During the Second World War”, 2013
12. Ashleigh Melvin, “The Other World: Religion and the Western Front during the Great War”, 2013
11. Maryam Philpott, “The Experience of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Navy in the Great War”, 2013
10. Alena Marie Papayanis, “The Renegotiation of America: Gender, National Identity and the Gulf War”, 2012
9. Louise Hide, “Inside the Asylum: Gender and Class in English Mental Hospitals, 1890-1914”, 2011
8. Cormac Deane, "The Frame of Exception: US Film and TV Featuring Terrorism 1990-2010", 2010 (co-supervised with Professor Costas Douzinas)
7. Jane McGaughey, “Irish Masculinities in Ulster, 1890-1922”, 2008
6. Paul Hodges, “British Atrocities During the First World War”, 2005
5. Carmen Mangion, “Catholic Women Religious in C19 England and Wales”, 2004
4. Ivan Gibbons, “Irish Nationalism and the British Labour Party”, 2004
3. Sean Brady, “Homosexual Identities and Gender in Nineteenth Century Britain”, 2003
2. Jim MacPherson, “Irish Women and Nationalism, 1890-1922”, 2003
1. Brian Green, “Social Change, Social Reform, and Gender in Southwark and Bermonsey”, 2000
Since 2000, I have been the external examiners for the following PhDs:
32. Eilish Boyle, "Visibility, Agency and Care Amongst Facially and Psychologically Wounded Veterans in Interwar Britain", University of Leeds, 2020
31. Georgia Ella McWinney, "'I Can Doctor Myself Up Without Going to the Doctor': Vernacular Medicine in the British World During the Great War", Macquarie University (Australia), 2020
30. Jack Doyle, “The Pathless Sky: Violence and Culture in First World War Air Services”, University of Oxford, 2019
29. John Patrick Collins, "The Professionalisation of Surgery: An Examination of Surgeon-Patient Encounters in Britain 1750-1850", University of Auckland, 2020
28. Louise Elizabeth Heren, "An Ugly Epoch: Male Sexual Violence in Interwar Scotland, 1918-30", University of St Andrews, 2019
27. Nicholas Basannavar, “Speaking About Child Sexual Abuse in Britain, 1965-1991”, Birkbeck College (other School), 2018
26. Claudia Zini, “Bosnia and Herzegovina: Contemporary Art from a Post-Conflict Society”, 2 vols, The Courtauld Institute of Art, April 2019
25. Emma J. Purce, "Freak Shows at British Seaside Resorts 1900-1950", University of Kent, 2017
24. Hannah Rose Woods, "Anxiety and Urban Life in Late Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1880-1914", Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, 2017
23. Ryan Ross, “Accidents and their Medico-Legal Sequelae in Twentieth Century Britain: Time, Trauma, and Writing History”, University of Queen Mary, 2017
22. Michael Robinson, “Nobody’s Children: Shell Shock and Rehabilitation in Ireland, 1914-1938”, University of Liverpool, 2017
21. Kylie Galbraith, "From Our Correspondent: The British Press and Nazi Germany, 1933-1939", University of Adelaide, 2017
20. Scott King, "Rationality Under Fire: The Incorporation of Emotion into Rational Choice", University of Sussex, 2014
19. Giulia ní Dhulchaointigh, “Irish People in London, 1900-1914”, Trinity College Dublin, 2013
18. Sarah Chaney, “Self-Mutilation and Psychiatry: Impulse, Identity, and the Unconscious in British Explanations of Self-Inflicted Injury, c. 1864-1914”, University College London, 2013
17. Greg J. Tinker, "The Cultural Memory of the Second World War: D-Day Veterans and Commemoration in Britain", University of Reading, 2013
16. Victoria Louise Bates, "Not an Exact Science: Medical Approaches to Age and Sexual Offences in England, 1850-1914", University of Exeter, 2013
15. David Bruce Cherry, “Sex and Morale: The Sexual Life of the British Soldier on the Western Front, 1914-1918”, University of Reading, 2012
14. Spiros Tsoutsoumpis, “Irregular Warfare in Occupied Greece: Masculinity and Morale in the S.O.E. and the Greek resistance”, University of Manchester, 2012
13. Clare Elizabeth Rhoden, “The Purpose of Futility: Leadership in Australian Great War Narrative”, University of Melbourne, 2011
12. Amanda Kaladelfos, “Crime and Outrage: Sexual Villains and Sexual Violence in New South Wales, 1870-1930”, University of Sydney, 2010
11. Marian Elizabeth Allsopp, “Invisible Wounds: A Genealogy of Emotional Abuse and Other Psychic Harms”, London School of Economics, 2009
10. Lisa Godson, “The Design of Public Events in the Irish Free State 1922-1929”, Royal College of Art, 2008
9. Anurag Jain, “Relations Between Ford, Kipling, Conan Doyle, Wells and British Propaganda During the First World War”, Queen Mary, University of London, 2008
8. Jane Tynan, “Representations of Soldiering, British Army Uniform, and the Male Body During the First World War”, University of the Arts, 2008
7. Susan Aspinall, “Nurture as Well as Nature: Environmentalism in Representations of Women and Exercise in Britain, 1880-1920s”, University of Warwick, 2008
6. Stuart James Hogarth, “Reluctant Patients: Health, Sickness and Plebeian Masculinity in C19 Britain”, London Metropolitan University, 2008
5. Rachel Sarah Duffett, “A War Unimagined: Food and the Rank and File Soldiers of the First World War”, University of Essex, 2008
4. Elizabeth Roberts, “Freedom, Faction, Fame, and Blood: British ‘Soldiers of Conscience’ in Three European Wars”, University of Sydney, 2007
3. Gabriel Koureas, “Unconquerable Manhood: Memory, Masculinity, and the Commemoration of the First World War in British Visual Culture, 1914-030”, Birkbeck (History of Art), 2004
2. Stephen Andrew Ball, “Policing the Land War”, Goldsmiths College, 2000
1. Rose Lindsey, “Nationalism and Gender: A Study of War-Related Violence Against Women”, University of Southampton, 2000
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
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JONATHAN MATFIN
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CORA SALKOVSKIS
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GABRIELLA MARIA ROMANO
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CAITLIN CUNNINGHAM
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S SHAPLAND
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LINDA MAYNARD
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NEIL PENLINGTON
Teaching
I am currently on research leave, so am only supervising PhD students, as well as being the Principal Investigator of SHaME Project (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters: see shame.bbk.ac.uk)
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Publications
Publications
Article
- Bourke, Joanna (2022) “A Deed of the Darkest Violence”: rape and the emergence of Sadism in Australian Psychiatry, 1920–1950. Journal of Australian Studies 46 (3), pp. 278-291. ISSN 1444-3058.
- Bourke, Joanna (2022) Military sexual trauma: gender, military cultures, and the medicalization of abuse in contemporary America. Journal of War & Culture Studies 15 (1), pp. 86-105. ISSN 1752-6272.
- Bourke, Joanna (2021) ‘A Deed of the Darkest Violence': sexually motivated crime and the emergence of Sadism in Australian psychiatry, 1920–1950. Journal of Australian Studies 46 (3), pp. 278-291. ISSN 1444-3058.
- Bourke, Joanna (2021) Becoming the “Natural” mother: power, emotions, and “Natural” childbirth between 1947 and 1967. Past and Present 246 (S15), pp. 92-114. ISSN 0031-2746.
- Bourke, Joanna (2020) Sadism: a history of non-consensual sexual cruelty. The International Journal of Forensic Psychotherapy 2 (1), pp. 1-12. ISSN 2632-0118.
- Wood, Whitney and Bourke, Joanna (2020) Conceptualising gender and pain in modern history. Gender & History 32 (1), pp. 8-12. ISSN 0953-5233.
- Bourke, Joanna (2020) The mocking of Margaret and the misfortune of Mary: sexual violence in Irish History, 1830s to the 1890s. Canadian Journal of Irish Studies/Revue canadienne d’études irlandaises 43, pp. 16-36. ISSN 0703-1459.
- Bourke, Joanna (2020) ‘Animal Instincts’: the sexual abuse of women with learning difficulties, 1830s-1910s. Women's History Review 20 (7), pp. 1201-1217. ISSN 0961-2025.
- Bourke, Joanna (2020) Cruel visions: reflections on artists and atrocities. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art 20 (1), pp. 5-22. ISSN 1443-4318.
- Bourke, Joanna (2019) Elaine Scarry, Michael Haneke’s ‘Funny Games’ and the structure of cruelty. Body and Society 25 (3), pp. 136-152. ISSN 1357-034X.
- Bourke, Joanna (2019) Radical physics: science, Socialism, and the paranormal at Birkbeck College in the 1970s. Journal of the British Academy 7, ISSN 2052–7217.
- Bourke, Joanna (2019) Bestiality, Zoophilia, and human-animal sexual interactions. Paragraph 42 (1), pp. 91-115. ISSN 0264-8334.
- Hide, Louise and Bourke, Joanna (2018) Cultures of harm in institutions of care: introduction. Social History of Medicine 31 (4), pp. 679-687. ISSN 0951-631X.
- Bourke, Joanna (2018) Police surgeons and victims of rape: cultures of harm and care. Social History of Medicine 31 (4), pp. 711-731. ISSN 0951-631X.
- Bourke, Joanna (2018) Psychiatry, hate training, and the Second World War. Journal of Social History 52 (1), pp. 101-120. ISSN 0022-4529.
- Bourke, Joanna (2018) The rise and rise of sexual violence. Historical Reflections 44 (1), pp. 104-116. ISSN 0315-7997.
- Bourke, Joanna (2017) Theorizing ballistics: ethics, emotions, and weapon-scientists. History and Theory 56 (4), pp. 135-151. ISSN 0018-2656.
- Bourke, Joanna (2016) War's carnage: wounds and weapons. The Lancet 387 (10028), pp. 1610-1611. ISSN 0140-6736.
- Bourke, Joanna (2016) Hazing: bullying in the military. Psychology and Education: An Interdisciplinary Journal 53 (1-2), ISSN 1553-6939.
- Bourke, Joanna (2015) Love and limblessness: male heterosexuality, disability, and the Great War. Journal of War & Culture Studies 9 (1), pp. 3-19. ISSN 1752-6272.
- Bourke, Joanna (2014) Pain sensitivity: an unnatural history from 1800 to 1965. Journal of Medical Humanities 35 (3), pp. 301-319. ISSN 1041-3545.
- Bourke, Joanna (2014) Rape as a weapon of war. The Lancet 383 (9934), pp. e19-e20. ISSN 0140-6736.
- Bourke, Joanna (2014) Childbirth in the UK: suffering and citizenship before the 1950s. The Lancet 383 (9925), pp. 1288-1289. ISSN 0140-6736.
- Bourke, Joanna (2014) Pain: metaphor, body, and culture in Anglo-American societies between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Rethinking History 18 (4), pp. 475-498. ISSN 1364-2529.
- Bourke, Joanna (2013) Bodily pain, combat, and the politics of memoirs: between the American Civil War and the war in Vietnam. Histoire sociale 46 (91), pp. 43-61. ISSN 0018-2257.
- Bourke, Joanna (2012) Pain, sympathy and the medical encounter between the mid eighteenth and the mid twentieth centuries. Historical Research 85 (229), pp. 430-452. ISSN 0950-3471.
- Bourke, Joanna (2012) Sexual violence, bodily pain, and trauma: a history. Theory, Culture & Society 29 (3), pp. 25-51. ISSN 0263-2764.
- Bourke, Joanna (2012) Languages of pain. The Lancet 379 (9835), pp. 2420-2421. ISSN 0140-6736.
- Bourke, Joanna (2011) Peter Whitehead and Niki de Saint Phalle's Daddy (1973). Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 52 (2), pp. 622-637. ISSN 1559-7989.
- Bourke, Joanna (2010) Sexual violation and trauma in historical perspective. Arbor-Ciencia Pensamiento Y Cultura 186 (743), pp. 407-416. ISSN 0210-1963.
- Bourke, Joanna (2010) Fear-narratives and the history of the body. AntiTHESIS (20), pp. 9-13. ISSN 1030-3839.
- Bourke, Joanna (2009) Divine madness: the dilemma of religious scruples in twentieth-century America and Britain. Journal of Social History 42 (3), pp. 581-603. ISSN 0022-4529.
- Bourke, Joanna (2008) Silas Weir Mitchell's The Case of George Dedlow. The Lancet 373 (9672), pp. 1332-1333. ISSN 1474-547x.
- Bourke, Joanna (2008) Emergency funding: an important step toward change. The New Statesman ISSN 1364-7431.
- Bourke, Joanna (2008) Rape myths past and present. The New Statesman ISSN 1364-7431.
- Bourke, Joanna (2008) When killing had to stop. The New Statesman ISSN 1364-7431.
- Bourke, Joanna (2008) Sexual violence, marital guidance, and Victorian bodies: an aesthesiology. Victorian Studies 50 (3), pp. 419-436. ISSN 0042-5222.
- Bourke, Joanna (2005) Sexy snaps. Index on Censorship 34 (1), pp. 39-45. ISSN 0306-4220.
- Bourke, Joanna (2005) Unwanted intimacy: violent sexual transfers in British and American societies 1870s to 1970s. European Journal of English Studies 9 (3), pp. 287-300. ISSN 1382-5577.
- Bourke, Joanna (2004) Remembering war. Journal of Contemporary History 39 (4), pp. 473-485. ISSN 0022-0094.
- Bourke, Joanna (2003) Fear and anxiety: writing about emotion in modern history. History Workshop Journal 55 (1), pp. 111-133. ISSN 1363-3554.
- Bourke, Joanna (2002) Lobotomomizzare le paure degli americani: la cura radicale per gli stati gravi di ansia, 1930-1980. Revista Internazionale di Studi Nordamericani 23, pp. 10-21.
- Bourke, Joanna (2001) The emotions in war: fear and the British and American military, 1914–45. Historical Research 74 (185), pp. 314-330. ISSN 0950-3471.
- Bourke, Joanna (2000) Effeminacy, ethnicity and the end of trauma: the sufferings of 'shell shocked' men in Great Britain and Ireland, 1914-39. Journal of Contemporary History 35 (1), pp. 57-69. ISSN 0022-0094.
- Bourke, Joanna (1999) The lust of battle: pain, pleasure and guilt. Global Dialogue 1 (2), pp. 120-129. ISSN 1450-0590.
- Bourke, Joanna (1998) Irish Tommies: the construction of a martial manhood 1914-1918. Bullan 4 (1), pp. 13-30. ISSN 1353-1913.
- Bourke, Joanna (1998) Mannlichkeit, krieg und militarismus in grobbritannien 1914-1939. Osterreiche Zeitschrift Fur Geschichtswissenschaften 9 (1), pp. 31-49.
- Bourke, Joanna (1998) The battle of the limbs: amputation, artificial limbs and the Great War in Australia. Australian Historical Studies 29 (110), pp. 49-67. ISSN 1031-461X.
- Bourke, Joanna (1997) Family values. Kingston University Review of the Centre for the Study of Society and Politics Journal pp. 10-12.
- Bourke, Joanna (1996) Fragmentation, fetishization and men's bodies in Britain, 1890 to 1939. Women: A Cultural Review 7 (3), pp. 240-249. ISSN 0957-4042.
- Bourke, Joanna (1996) Masculinity, men's bodies and the Great War. History Today 46 (2), pp. 8-11. ISSN 0018-2753.
- Bourke, Joanna (1996) The great male renunciation: the men's dress reform party in interwar Britain. Journal of Design History 9 (1), pp. 23-33. ISSN 1741-7279.
- Bourke, Joanna (1995) Heroes and hoaxes: The Unknown Warrior, Kitchener and 'missing men' in the 1920s. War and Society 13 (2), pp. 41-63. ISSN 0729-2473.
- Bourke, Joanna (1995) Swinging the lead: malingering, Australian soldiers and the Great War. Journal of the Australian War Memorial 26, pp. 10-18. ISSN 1327-0141.
- Bourke, Joanna (1995) Wandering Jews of medicine: shell shock and Australian soldiers in the Great War. Sabretache pp. 3-10.
- Bourke, Joanna (1994) Housewifery in Britain, 1850-1914. Past and Present 143 (1), pp. 167-197. ISSN 0031-2746.
- Bourke, Joanna (1994) I was always fond of my pillow: the handmade lace industry in the United Kingdom, 1870-1914. Rural History 5 (2), pp. 155-169. ISSN 0956-7933.
- Bourke, Joanna (1991) Women, economics and power: Irish Women, 1880-1914. Irish Home Economics Journal 1 (2), pp. 3-16.
- Bourke, Joanna (1991) Working women: the domestic labour market in Ireland, 1890-1914. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 21 (3), pp. 479-499. ISSN 0022-1953.
- Bourke, Joanna (1991) The best of all home rulers: the economic power of women in Ireland, 1890-1914. Irish Economic and Social History 18 (1), pp. 34-47. ISSN 0332-4893.
- Bourke, Joanna (1990) Dairymaids and housewives: the dairy industry in Ireland, 1890-1914. Agricultural History Review 38 (2), pp. 149-164.
- Bourke, Joanna (1989) The health caravan: female labour and domestic education in rural Ireland, 1890-1914. Eire - Ireland: A Journal of Irish Studies 24 (4), pp. 21-38. ISSN 0013-2683.
- Bourke, Joanna (1989) The household economy and female labour: rural Ireland, 1890-1914. Tasmanian Historical Studies pp. 30-50.
- Bourke, Joanna (1987) Women and poultry in Ireland, 1891-1914. Irish Historical Studies 25 (99), pp. 293-310. ISSN 0021-1214.
- Bourke, Joanna (1986) Poverty or piety: catholic fertility in Australia and New Zealand. New Zealand Population Review pp. 18-31.
Book
- Bourke, Joanna (2020) Loving animals: on Bestiality, Zoophilia and post-human love. Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781789143102.
- Bourke, Joanna, ed. (2017) War and art. London, UK: Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781780238463.
- Bourke, Joanna (2014) Wounding the world. London, UK: Little, Brown. ISBN 9780349004327.
- Bourke, Joanna (2014) The story of pain: from prayer to painkillers. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199689422.
- Bourke, Joanna (2011) What it means to be human: historical reflections 1791 to the present. London, UK: Virago. ISBN 9781844086443.
- Bourke, Joanna (2008) Rape: a history from 1860 to the present. London: Virago Press. ISBN 9781844081554.
- Bourke, Joanna (2005) Fear: a cultural history. London: Virago Press. ISBN 1844081575.
- Cunliffe, B. and Bartlett, R. and Morrill, J. and Briggs, A. and Bourke, Joanna, eds. (2001) The Penguin atlas of British and Irish history: from earliest times to the present day. London, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140295184.
- Bourke, Joanna (2001) The Second World War: a people's history. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780192802248.
- Bourke, Joanna (2000) An intimate history of killing: face-to-face killing in Twentieth Century warfare. London, UK: Granta Books. ISBN 9781862073210.
- Bourke, Joanna (1999) Misfit soldier: a war story, 1914-1932 by Edward Casey. Cork, Ireland: Cork University Press. ISBN 9781859181881.
- Bourke, Joanna (1996) Dismembering the male: men's bodies, Britain and the Great War. London, UK: Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781861890351.
- Bourke, Joanna (1994) Working class cultures in Britain, 1890-1960 gender, class and ethnicity. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9780415098984.
- Bourke, Joanna (1993) Husbandry to housewifery: women, economic change and housework in Ireland, 1890-1914. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. ISBN 9780198203858.
Book Section
- Bourke, Joanna (2022) Forensic sense: sexual violence, medical professionals, and the senses. In: Boddice, R. and Hitzer, B. (eds.) Feeling Dis-Ease in Modern History: Experiencing Medicine and Illness. London, UK: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781350228375. (In Press)
- Bourke, Joanna (2021) The rise and rise of sexual violence. In: Dwyer, P. and Micale, M.S. (eds.) On Violence In History. Berghahn. ISBN 9781789204643.
- Bourke, Joanna (2021) Historical perspectives on mental health and psychiatry. In: Bouras, N. and Ikkos, G. (eds.) Mind, State, and Society: Psychiatry and Mental Health in Britain 1960-2010 (Cambridge: CUP, 2021).. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781911623793. (In Press)
- Bourke, Joanna (2021) “’Me’ and ‘My Pain’: Neuralgia and a history of the language of suffering. In: Padfield, D. (ed.) Encountering Pain. London, UK: UCL Press. ISBN 9781787352643. (In Press)
- Bourke, Joanna (2020) Premature burial and the mysteries of death. In: Stearns, P.N. (ed.) The Routledge History of Death since 1800. New York, U.S.: Routledge. pp. 353-371. ISBN 9780367137168. (In Press)
- Bourke, Joanna (2020) “Are Women Animals?” The rise and rise of (Animal) rights. In: Celermajer, D. and Lefebvre, A. (eds.) The Subject of Human Rights. Stanford University Press. ISBN 9781503613195. (In Press)
- Bourke, Joanna (2020) A global history of sexual violence from the Nineteenth Century to the present. In: Edwards, L. and Penn, N. and Winter, J. (eds.) The Cambridge World History of Violence: 1800 to the Present. The Cambridge World History of Violence. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 147-167. ISBN 9781316585023.
- Bourke, Joanna (2019) Phantom suffering and the problem of compassion: a history. In: Kyprionidou, E. (ed.) The Art of Compassion. Téchnes. Athens, Greece: Nissos Publications. ISBN 9789605890889.
- Bourke, Joanna (2019) Visualizing pain: a history of representations of suffering in medical texts. In: Bruzzi, S. and Jung, N. (eds.) Rhetoric of Pain. Warwick Series in the Humanities. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. ISBN 9781138366541.
- Bourke, Joanna (2017) Introduction: war and art. In: Bourke, Joanna (ed.) War and Art. London, UK: Reaktion Books. pp. 7-43. ISBN 9781780238463.
- Bourke, Joanna (2017) Rape in the art of war. In: Bourke, Joanna (ed.) War and Art. London, UK: Reaktion Books. pp. 316-323. ISBN 9781780238463.
- Bourke, Joanna (2017) Afterword: war on the senses. In: Saunders, N.J. and Cornish, P. (eds.) Modern Conflict and the Senses: Killer Instincts?. Routledge. ISBN 9781138927827.
- Bourke, Joanna (2016) Pugnacity, pain, and professionalism: British combat memoirs from Afghanistan, 2006-14. In: Dwyer, P.G. (ed.) War Stories: The War Memoir in History and Literature. New York, U.S.: Berghahn. ISBN 9781785333071.
- Bourke, Joanna (2016) Why history hurts. In: Leese, P. and Crouthamel, J. (eds.) Traumatic Memories of the Second World War and After. New York, U.S.: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9783319334691.
- Bourke, Joanna (2014) Killing in a posthuman world: the philosophy and practice of critical military history. In: Blaagaard, B. and Ven der Tuin, I. (eds.) The Subject of Rosi Braidotti: Politics and Concepts. London, UK and New York, U.S.: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 29-37. ISBN 9781472573353.
- Bourke, Joanna (2013) Pain and poetics: forty years of Adrienne Rich. In: Virago is Forty: A Celebration. London, UK: Virago. pp. 18-23.
- Bourke, Joanna (2010) Sexual trauma and jouissance in Baise-Moi. In: Russell, D. (ed.) Rape in Art Cinema. London, UK: Continuum. pp. 185-194. ISBN 9780826429674.
- Bourke, Joanna (2010) Who is the "rapist"?: crimes of sexual violence and theories of evolution. In: Avdela, E. and d'Cruze, S. and Rowbotham, J. (eds.) Problems of Crime and Violence in Europe, 1780-2000: Essays in Criminal Justice. hors serie. Ceredigion, UK: Edwin Mellen Press. ISBN 9780773438156.
- Bourke, Joanna (2009) The malingerers' craft: mind over body in twentieth-century Britain and America. In: Davison, G. and Jalland, P. and Prest, W. (eds.) Body and Mind: Historical Essays in Honour of F. B. Smith. Melbourne, Australia: Melbourne University Press. pp. 91-115. ISBN 9780522857177.
- Bourke, Joanna (2009) The threshold of the human: sexual violence and trauma in the war on terror. In: Miller, C. (ed.) "War On Terror" : The Oxford Amnesty Lectures. Oxford Amnesty Lectures. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9780719079740.
- Bourke, Joanna (2009) Foreword. In: Heberle, R.J. and Grace, V. (eds.) Theorizing Sexual Violence. Routledge Research in Gender and Society. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. ix-xii. ISBN 9780415961332.
- Bourke, Joanna (2009) Der heilberuf und das leiden: die erfahrungen der militärmedizin in den beiden Weltkriegen. In: Larner, M. and Peto, J. and Schmitz, C.M. (eds.) Krieg und Medizin. Göttingen , Germany: Wallstein-Verl. ISBN 9783835304864.
- Bourke, Joanna and Summerfield, P. (2009) War, violence and gender. In: Dülffer, J. and Frank, R. (eds.) Peace, War and Gender from Antiquity to the Present: Cross Cultural Perspectives. Essen, Germany: Klartext Verlag. ISBN 9783837502145.
- Bourke, Joanna (2008) Why does politics turn to violence?. In: Edkins, J. and Zehfuss, M. (eds.) Global Politics: A New Introduction. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 370-396. ISBN 9780415431316.
- Bourke, Joanna (2008) Suffering and the healing profession: the experience of military medicine in the first and second world wars. In: Arnold, K. and Vogel, K. and Peto, J. (eds.) War and Medicine. London, UK: Black Dog Publishing. pp. 108-125. ISBN 9781906155520.
- Bourke, Joanna (2007) Rachel comforted: spiritualism and the reconstruction of the body after death. In: Mitchell, M. (ed.) Remember Me. Constructing Immorality. Beliefs on Immorality, Life, and Death. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 61-62. ISBN 9780415954853.
- Bourke, Joanna (2007) Trauma, memoria. In: Torres, F. (ed.) Oscura es la habitaciớn Donde Dorminos. Spain: Actar. pp. 154-67.
- Bourke, Joanna (2006) Barbarisation vs. civilisation time of war. In: Kassimeris, G. (ed.) The Barbarisation of Warfare. London, UK: Hurst and Company. pp. 19-38. ISBN 9781850657996.
- Bourke, Joanna (2006) How do physical bodies affect social change?. In: Swain, H. (ed.) Big Questions in History. London, UK: Vintage. pp. 235-241. ISBN 9780099468462.
- Bourke, Joanna (2006) Introduction. In: The Deluge: British Society and the First World War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. ix-xxii. ISBN 9780230002456.
- Bourke, Joanna (2006) New military history. In: Hughes, M. and Philpott, W.J. (eds.) Modern Military History. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 258-280. ISBN 9780230625372.
- Bourke, Joanna (2006) Uusi sotahistoria. In: Kinnunen, T.T. and Kivimäki, V. (eds.) Ihminen Sodassa: Suomalaisten Kokemuksia Talvi, Ja Jatkosodasta. Helsinki, Finland: Minerva. pp. 21-42. ISBN 9789524929028.
- Bourke, Joanna (2006) The killing frenzy: wartime narratives of enemy action. In: Lüdthe, A. and Weisbrod, B. (eds.) No man's land of violence: extreme wars in the 20th century. Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag. pp. 101-225. ISBN 9780230625372.
- Bourke, Joanna (2004) Eye-to-face with the enemy: killing face to face in the wars of the 20th Century (1914-1975). In: Gleichmann, P. and Kuhne, T. (eds.) Massacre killing: Wars and genocides in the 20th century. Essen, Germany: Klartext Verlag. pp. 287-306. ISBN 9783898612180.
- Bourke, Joanna (2004) Narrare le atrocità: come inglesi e statunitensi 'raccontano' la violenza di guerre. In: Baldissara, L. and Pezzino, P. (eds.) Crimini e memorie di Guerra. Napoli, Italy: Ancoradel. pp. 113-126. ISBN 9788883251351.
- Bourke, Joanna (2004) The body in modern warfare: myth and meaning, 1914-1945. In: Payne, S.G. and Sorkin, D.J. and Tortorice, J.S. (eds.) What History Tells: George L. Mosse and the Culture of Modern Europe. Madison, USA: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 202-219. ISBN 9780299194109.
- Bourke, Joanna (2003) Experience, language and body: Great Britain during the first and Second World Wars. In: Dejung, C. and Stämpfli, R. (eds.) Armee, Staat und Geschlecht: Die Schweiz im internationalen Vergleich 1918-1945. Zürich, Switzerland: Chronos Verlag. pp. 47-63. ISBN 9783034005739.
- Bourke, Joanna (2003) Going home: the personal adjustment of British and American servicemen after the war. In: Bessel, R. and Schumann, D. (eds.) Life After Death: Approaches to a Cultural and Social History of Europe During the 1940s and 1950s. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 149-160. ISBN 9780521009225.
- Bourke, Joanna (2002) Shell-shock, psychiatry and the Irish soldier during the First World War. In: Gregory, A. and Paseta, S. (eds.) Ireland and the Great War: “A War To Unite Us All?”. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. pp. 155-170. ISBN 9780719059254.
- Bourke, Joanna (2002) The experience of killing. In: Liddle, P. and Bourne, J. and Whitehead, I. (eds.) The Great World War 1914-1945: Lightning Strikes Twice. Harper Collins Publishers. pp. 293-309. ISBN 9780007116171.
- Bourke, Joanna (2001) Modern Britain and Ireland. In: Cunliffe, B. and Bartlett, R. and Morrill, J. and Briggs, A. and Bourke, Joanna (eds.) The Penguin Atlas of British and Irish History: From Earliest Times to the Present Day. London, UK: Penguin. pp. 220-283. ISBN 9780140295184.
- Bourke, Joanna (2001) Psychology at war, 1914-1945. In: Bunn, G.C. and Lovie, A.D. and Richards, G.D. (eds.) Psychology in Britain: Historical Essays and Personal Reflections. London, UK: John Wiley & Sons. pp. 133-149. ISBN 9781854333322.
- Bourke, Joanna (2001) War and the body. In: Blakemore, C. and Jennett, S. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to the Body. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 724-725. ISBN 9780198524038.
- Bourke, Joanna (2001) The best of all home rulers: the economic power of women in Ireland, 1880-1914. In: Urquhart, D. and Hayes, A. (eds.) Irish Women’s History Reader. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 203-208. ISBN 9780415199148.
- Bourke, Joanna (2000) The experience of medicine in wartime. In: Cooter, R. and Pickstone, J. (eds.) Medicine in the Twentieth Century. Harwood Academic Publishers. pp. 589-600. ISBN 9789057024795.
- Bourke, Joanna (1999) The Ideal Man: Irish Masculinity and the Home, 1880-1914. In: Cohen, M. and Curtin, N. (eds.) Reclaiming Gender: Transgressive Identities in Modern Ireland. New York, USA: St. Martin's Press. pp. 93-106. ISBN 9780312213374.
- Bourke, Joanna (1998) Disciplining the emotions: fear, psychiatry and the Second World War. In: Cooter, R. and Harrison, M. and Sturdy, S. (eds.) War, Medicine and Modernity. London, UK: Sutton Publishers. pp. 225-238. ISBN 9780750918022.
- Bourke, Joanna (1998) Housewifery in working-class England 1860-1914. In: Sharpe, P. (ed.) Women's Work: The English Experience 1650-1914. Arnold Readers in History. London, UK: Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 332-358. ISBN 9780340676967.
- Bourke, Joanna (1994) Avoiding poverty: strategies for women in rural Ireland, 1880-1914. In: Wall, R. and Henderson, J. (eds.) Poor Women and Children in the European Past. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 292-311. ISBN 9780415077163.
Conference Item
- Bourke, Joanna (1998) In the presence of mine enemies: face-to-face killing in Twentieth Century warfare. Electronic Seminars in History, 1998,
Editorial
- Mangion, Carmen M. and Bourke, Joanna and Hide, Louise (2012) Perspectives on Pain: Introduction. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (15), Birkbeck University. ISSN 1755-1560.
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