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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), 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.

Editorial/Introduction

Mangion, Carmen M. and Bourke, Joanna and Hide, Louise (2012) Perspectives on Pain: Introduction. [Editorial/Introduction]

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 IV. 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 15. 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: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) 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, 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: UNSPECIFIED (ed.) The Deluge: British Society and the First World War. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 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 or Workshop Item

Bourke, Joanna (1998) In the presence of mine enemies: face-to-face killing in Twentieth Century warfare. In: Electronic Seminars in History, 1998. (Unpublished)

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.