Private loss, public mourning
Motherhood, Memory and Grief in Australia During the Inter-War Years
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3147164 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Damousi (0000-0002-5366-253X, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 365-378 |
| Publication date | 1999-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612029900200204 |
| PMID | 22619786 |
| OpenAlex | W1964475212 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 8 |
This article explores the ways in which mothers who lost their sons in the First World War attempted to articulate a language of grief. This was being done when the distinctiveness of mothers' losses was being erased, when women were being marginalized in public commemoration and when notions of 'sacrifice' were being reworked to mean the sacrifice of men alone. At the heart of their campaign for recognition lay the paradox that while they upheld and sustained the memory of war, mothers' campaigns for remuneration revealed attempts by them to shape a politics of grief which the mythologies of war denied
Grief · Mythology · Optimal distinctiveness theory · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Sacrifice · Sociology · Spanish Civil War · World War II · Australian History and Society · Classics · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Irish and British Studies · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · World Wars: History, Literature, and Impact
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,26 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2021 (15) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |