BOURKE JOANNA

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Η ατμόσφαιρα του φόβου αποτελεί πλέον αναπόσπαστο τμήμα της σύγχρονης κουλτούρας. Δεν υπάρχει στιγμή της μέρας που τα μέσα ενημέρωσης να μη μας πληροφορούν για γεγονότα που μας γεμίζουν κατήφεια και φόβο. Στο μοναδικό αυτό έργο η βραβευμένη ιστορικός Joanna Bourke μας βοηθά να κατανοήσουμε ιστορικά το τοπίο του φόβου, όπως αυτό διαμορφώθηκε τους δύο τελευταίους αιώνες. Με διεισδυτικές παρατηρήσεις που συνθέτουν και εδράζονται σε κοινωνιοπολιτιστικές αναλύσεις, στην ψυχολογία, στη φιλοσοφία όσο και στην εκλαϊκευμένη επιστημονική γνώση, η συ...
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(P/B) RAPE
Joanna Bourke, author of the critically-acclaimed Fear, unflinchingly and controversially moves away from looking at victims to look at the rapists. She examines the nature of rape, drawing together the work of criminologists, sociologists and psychiatrists to analyse what drives the perpetrators of sexual violence. Rape - A History looks at the perception of rape, both in the mass media and the wider public, and considers the crucial questions of treatment and punishment. Should sexual offenders be castrated? Will Freud's couch or the beh...
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(H/B) LOVING ANIMALS
Sexual contact with non-human animals is one of the last taboos but, for a practice that is generally regarded as abhorrent, it is remarkable how many books, films, plays, paintings and photographs depict the subject. In this book renowned historian Joanna Bourke explores the history of human-animal sexuality and examines how the meanings of the words 'bestiality' or 'zoophilia' have changed. Are people who are sexually attracted to non-human animals psychiatrically ill, or are they normal people who happen to have a minority sexual orient...
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(H/B) THE STORY OF PAIN
Everyone knows what is feels like to be in pain. Scraped knees, toothaches, migraines, giving birth, cancer, heart attacks, and heartaches: pain permeates our entire lives. We also witness other people - loved ones - suffering, and we 'feel with' them. It is easy to assume this is the end of the story: 'pain-is-pain-is-pain', and that is all there is to say. But it is not. In fact, the way in which people respond to what they describe as 'painful' has changed considerably over time. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, for example,...
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(P/B) AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF KILLING