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Grief in Wartime

Private Pain, Public Discourse

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  • © 2007

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  1. Carol Acton

    1. St Jerome’s University, Canada

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Carol Acton
      Pages 1-14

  3. War and Grief at ‘Home’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. For Women Must Weep

      • Carol Acton
      Pages 17-46

    3. Grieving the ‘Good’ War

      • Carol Acton
      Pages 47-79

    4. Vietnam

      • Carol Acton
      Pages 80-101

  4. War and Grief at the ‘Front’

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-103
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    2. Mourning and Combat

      • Carol Acton
      Pages 105-131

    3. ‘Can’t Face the Graves Today’

      • Carol Acton
      Pages 132-153

    4. Vietnam

      • Carol Acton
      Pages 154-175

    5. Epilogue: ‘Mother to Mother’

      • Carol Acton
      Pages 176-198

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 199-224
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About this book

An examination of private narratives of loss in wartime and publicly legitimized forms of grieving. Drawing on sources such as diaries, poetry and weblogs and using gender as an analytic category, the book looks at men's and women's experiences of war 'at home' and 'at the front' and spans the two World Wars, the Vietnam War and the war in Iraq.

Authors and Affiliations

  • St Jerome’s University, Canada

    Carol Acton

About the author

CAROL ACTON is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at St Jerome's University, Waterloo, Canada. Her primary research area is gender and war. She has published on Vera Brittain's wartime correspondence and on nurses' writing from the First World War and the Vietnam War.

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