A critical, comparative history of five notorious women branded icons of evil.

Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving bir...

This book explores the concept of 'resilience' in the context of militaries and militarization. F...

This book explores the concept of 'resilience' in the context of militaries and militarization. F...

This volume explores agricultural commercialization from a gender equality and right to food pers...

Disgrace is the first truly global history of sexual violence. The book explores how sexual viole...

Fear is one of the most basic and most powerful of all the human emotions. Sometimes it is haunti...

Dalla paura di venire sepolti vivi allo spettro del terrorismo, dal panico in combattimento a que...

Sex with animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abho...

Originally published: London: Virago Press, 2014.

This sumptuously illustrated volume, edited by eminent war historian Joanna Bourke, offers a comp...

Eyewitness accounts from the BBC Archive are at the heart of this unique history of the first hal...

Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving bir...

Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves a...

Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a tim...

Il contatto sessuale con gli animali è uno degli ultimi tabù del mondo contemporaneo e, pur essen...