This very moving book on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief focuses on the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during the Second World War and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. The book makes use of extensive oral testimonies to illustrate how widows internalised and absorb...

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1. Verfasser:	Damousi, Joy (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2001
Schlagworte:	Ethik Psychologie Weltkrieg (1939-1945) World War, 1939-1945 / Australia Bereavement / Psychological aspects World War, 1939-1945 / Moral and ethical aspects World War, 1939-1945 / Psychological aspects Australien
Online-Zugang:	BSB01 UBG01 Volltext
Zusammenfassung:	This very moving book on the shifting patterns of mourning and grief focuses on the experiences of Australian women who lost their husbands during the Second World War and the wars in Korea and Vietnam. The book makes use of extensive oral testimonies to illustrate how widows internalised and absorbed the traumas of their husband's war experience. Joy Damousi is able to demonstrate that a significant shift in attitudes towards grieving and loss came about between the mid century and the later part of the twentieth century. In charting the memory of grief and its expression, she discerns a move away from the denial and silence which shaped attitudes in the 1950s towards a much fuller expression of grief and mourning and perhaps a new way of understanding death and loss at the beginning of the new century
Beschreibung:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (viii, 240 pages)
ISBN:	9780511549618
DOI:	10.1017/CBO9780511549618