The Labour of Loss
Mourning, Memory and Wartime Bereavement in Australia
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Part of Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare
- Author: Joy Damousi, University of Melbourne
- Date Published: June 1999
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669740
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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, this study 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 analyzes the gendered dimensions of grief.
Read more- Uses imaginative and provocative primary source material
- Powerfully written
- Original arguments about war and grief
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"The Labour of Loss offers a new perspective on the impact of twentieth-century warfare, because it engages seriously with the dimensions of grief and emotion experienced by soldiers and their families." Kate Darian-Smith, TLS
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- Date Published: June 1999
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521669740
- length: 224 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 153 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.335kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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