Title The labour of loss : mourning, memory and wartime bereavement in Australia / Joy Damousi

Published Cambridge ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 1999 Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999

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Description 212 pages ; 23 cm Series Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 7 Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare ; 7 Contents Machine derived contents note: 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 Summary The Labour of Loss 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. 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 Notes Includes index Bibliography Bibliography Notes English Subject Bereavement -- Australia -- History -- 20th century. War and society -- Australia -- History -- 20th century. World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia. Grief -- Social aspects. World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia -- Psychological aspects. Bereavement. World War, 1914-1918 -- Australia -- Psychological aspects. World War, 1914-1918 -- Psychological aspects. World War, 1939-1945 -- Psychological aspects. Grief -- Psychological aspects. World War, 1914-1918 -- Social aspects -- Australia. World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- Australia. World War, 1939-1945 -- Australia. Grief. Bereavement -- Psychological aspects. LC no. 99018523 ISBN 052166974X : 0521660041 :

ABBREV TI The Labour of Loss LABOUR OF LOSS STUDIES IN THE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY OF MODERN WARFARE, 7 Labour of Loss: Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia Other Titles Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare no. 7

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