The Labour of Loss(English, Paperback, Damousi Joy)

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The Labour of Loss(English, Paperback, Damousi Joy) is written by Damousi Joy and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 052166974X (ISBN 10) and 9780521669740 (ISBN 13).

The Labour of Loss, first published in 1999, 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. The book considers the ways in which the bereaved dealt with grief psychologically, and analyses the social and cultural context within which they mourned their dead. Damousi shows that grief remained with people as they attempted to re-build an internal and external world without those to whom they had been so fundamentally attached. 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.