Gender and Trauma since 1900

List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgements 1. Gender and Trauma since 1900. Paula A. Michaels and Christina Twomey, 2. Trauma in Post-WWI Italy: Experiences, Erasures, and Denials. Martina Salvante3. Trauma, child refugees, and humanitarians in the Spanish Civil War and World War II: A Case Study of Esme Odgers. Joy Damousi 4. Servitude, Displacement, and Trauma: Jewish Refugee Domestics in Great Britain 1938-45. Jennifer Craig-Norton 5. 'Combat Exhaustion' vs. 'Psychoneurosis': American Psychiatrists and the Terminology of War Trauma during World War II. Rebecca Jo Plant6. POWs into Citizens: Repatriation, Gender and the Civilian Resettlement Units in Great Britain. Elizabeth Roberts-Pedersen 7. Soviet Maternity Care and Competing Narratives of Trauma. Paula A. Michaels8. Trauma and sexual violence: narratives and cases in late-twentieth century Australia. Lisa Featherstone 9. Psychological, Embodied and Gendered Trauma in Militarized Kampala (Uganda). Benjamin Twagira 10. 'The Missing Ones': Vietnamese Diasporic Memory and Women's Narratives of Loss. Nathalie Huynh Chau Nguyen 11. Refiguring 'Trauma': Women's Narratives of Suffering in Post-Conflict Timor-Leste. Hannah Loney 12. Changing the Story: women and trauma in Australian narratives of mental illness. Katie Holmes Consolidated BibliographyIndex

Paula A. Michaels is Associate Professor of History at Monash University, Australia. Her work bridges the histories of Eastern and Western Europe, integrating the USSR into a pan-European and global narrative through the study of social and cultural history. She is especially interested in the ways that medicine is mobilised to further political and social objectives. Christina Twomey is Professor of History and current Head of the School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies at Monash University, Australia. Her research focuses on histories of humanitarianism and the cultural history of war, with a particular interest in imprisonment and internment, and the photography of atrocity.