Joanna Bourke

Joanna Bourke (born 1963 in New Zealand) is a historian and professor of history at Birkbeck, University of London.

Biography

Born to Christian missionary parents, Bourke was brought up in Zambia, Solomon Islands and Haiti. [ [http://www.creativebristol.com/biographies.pdf Bristol Festival of Ideas 2005 programme] (.pdf file)] After home education with her siblings she attended Auckland University, gaining a BA and masters in history. She did her PhD at the Australian National University and has subsequently held academic posts in Australia, New Zealand, and Cambridge. [ [http://www.granta.com/authors/49 Granta biography page] on Joanna Bourke] Joanna Bourke, who describes herself as a "socialist feminist", [Eithne Farry [http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2184048,00.html "'Why aren't we more outraged?'",] "The Guardian", 5 October 2007. Retrieved on 7 October 2007.] has written on Irish history, gender history, working-class culture, war and masculinity, the cultural history of fear and the history of rape. She lives in London.

Works

*"Husbandry and Housewifery: Women, Economic Change and Housework in Ireland, 1890-1914" Clarendon Press, 1993.
*"Working-Class Cultures in Britain, 1890-1960: Gender, Class and Ethnicity". Routledge, 1994
*"Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain and the Great War". Reaktion Press and University of Chicago Press, 1996.
*"An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare", 1999, Granta (Won the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History for 1998 and the Wolfson Prize for Historical Writing in 2000)
*"Fear: A Cultural History", 2006, ISBN 978-1-59376-113-4
*"Rape: Sex, Violence, History", 2007, Shoemaker & Hoard. ISBN 978-1-59376-114-1

References

External links

* [http://www.bbk.ac.uk/hca/staff/joannabourke Birkbeck homepage]