Joy Damousi

The Labour of Loss

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

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Produktbeschreibung

The Labour of Loss, first published in 1999, explores how mothers, fathers, widows, relatives and friends dealt with their experiences of grief and loss during and after the First and Second World Wars. Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries, it makes a significant contribution to understanding how people came to terms with the deaths of friends and family. The book considers the ways in which the bereaved dealt with grief psychologically, and analyses the social and cultural context within which they mourned their dead. Damousi shows that grief remained with people as they attempted to re-build an internal and external world without those to whom they had been so fundamentally attached. Unlike other studies in this area, The Labour of Loss considers how mourning affected men and women in different ways, and analyses the gendered dimensions of grief.

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.