Joy Damousi

Living with the Aftermath

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This moving book focuses on the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780521802185
• ISBN-10: 0521802180
• Artikelnr.: 33609389

Autorenporträt

Joy Damousi is Professor of History at the University of Melbourne. She has had a long-standing interest in Australian political history, beginning with her first book published twenty years ago on women in left-wing movements, Women Come Rally: Socialism, communism and gender in Australia 1890-1955 (1994). Since then she has written on various aspects of the politics and impact of war, migration and internationalism throughout the Cold War period. Her books include Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (2001), Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural History of Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005) and Colonial Voices: A Cultural History of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010). She is co-editor of Diversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Remembering war widows
2. The wars
3. Remembering death in war: loss, nostalgia and regret
4. The question of silence
5. Marriage wars: 1945-65
6. Forgotten wars
7. Memories of death, solitude and renewal
8. Conclusion.