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Joanna Bourke
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Rape: Sex, Violence, History
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2007
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18 editions
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An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-Face Killing in Twentieth Century Warfare
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1999
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Fear: A Cultural History
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2006
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16 editions
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The Story of Pain: From Prayer to Painkillers
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2014
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13 editions
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What It Means to Be Human
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2011
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17 editions
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Dismembering the Male: Men's Bodies, Britain, and the Great War
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1996
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7 editions
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The Second World War: A People's History
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2001
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9 editions
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Disgrace: Global Reflections on Sexual Violence
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Deep Violence: Military Violence, War Play, and the Social Life of Weapons
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2014
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11 editions
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Loving Animals: On Bestiality, Zoophilia and Post-Human Love
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“Sir, —
Whether women are the equals of men has been endlessly debated; whether they have souls has been a moot point; but can it be too much to ask [for a definitive acknowledgement that at least they are animals?… Many hon. members may object to the proposed Bill enacting that, in statutes respecting the suffrage, 'wherever words occur which import the masculine gender they shall be held to include women;' but could any object to the insertion of a clause in another Act that 'whenever the word "animal" occur it shall be held to include women?' Suffer me, thorough your columns, to appeal to our 650 [parliamentary] representatives, and ask — Is there not one among you then who will introduce such a motion? There would then be at least an equal interdict on wanton barbarity to cat, dog, or woman…
Yours respectfully,
AN EARNEST ENGLISHWOMAN”
― What It Means to Be Human
Whether women are the equals of men has been endlessly debated; whether they have souls has been a moot point; but can it be too much to ask [for a definitive acknowledgement that at least they are animals?… Many hon. members may object to the proposed Bill enacting that, in statutes respecting the suffrage, 'wherever words occur which import the masculine gender they shall be held to include women;' but could any object to the insertion of a clause in another Act that 'whenever the word "animal" occur it shall be held to include women?' Suffer me, thorough your columns, to appeal to our 650 [parliamentary] representatives, and ask — Is there not one among you then who will introduce such a motion? There would then be at least an equal interdict on wanton barbarity to cat, dog, or woman…
Yours respectfully,
AN EARNEST ENGLISHWOMAN”
― What It Means to Be Human
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| The History Book ...: * CULTURAL HISTORY | 110 | 529 | Mar 12, 2023 01:01PM |
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