Joy Damousi

The Labour of Loss

Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia
Herausgeber: Kennedy, Paul; Winter, Jay

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Produktbeschreibung

This book, first published in 1999, explores the experience of private loss and grief after the two world wars.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 332g
• ISBN-13: 9780521669740
• ISBN-10: 052166974X
• Artikelnr.: 22722386

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

Part I. The First World War: 1. Theatres of grief, theatres of loss
2. The sacrificial mother
3. A father's loss
4. The war widow and the cost of memory
5. Returned limbless soldiers: identity through loss
Part II. The Second World War: 6. Absence as loss on the homefront and the battlefront
7. Grieving mothers
8. A war widow's mourning.