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Joanna Bourke (born 1963 in New Zealand) is an 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.^[1] 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.^[2] Joanna Bourke, who describes herself as a "socialist feminist",^[3] 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

Notes

• http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/mar/15/academicexperts.highereducationprofile
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2007/oct/20/featuresreviews.guardianreview8

External links

• Birkbeck homepage
• Personal site