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).
Introduction
1. Greek war stories in Australia: continuities and discontinuities
2. Assimilation in modern Australia
3. War stories and the migration generation
4. Politics and activism
5. The Greek Civil War and child migration to Australia
6. Remembering the 'Paidomazoma': memories of mothers and children in war
7. Legacies: second generation Greek-Australians
8. The shadow of war
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.
