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Informationen zum Autor 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 womenin left-wing movements, Women Come Rally: Socialism, communismand gender in Australia 1890-1955 (1994). Since then she has writtenon various aspects of the politics and impact of war, migrationand internationalism throughout the Cold War period. Her booksinclude Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief inPost-war Australia (2001), Freud in the Antipodes: A Cultural Historyof Psychoanalysis in Australia (2005) and Colonial Voices: A CulturalHistory of English in Australia 1840-1940 (2010). She is co-editor ofDiversity in Leadership: Australian Women, Past and Present (2014). Klappentext This book, first published in 1999, explores the experience of private loss and grief after the two world wars. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 1999! explores how people dealt with the grief process during and immediately after the two world wars. Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries! this study makes a significant contribution to understanding how people came to terms with the deaths of friends and family. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
