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This book transforms our understanding of the history of psychological trauma. By placing gender at the centre of its inquiry, this powerful study probes the traumatic dimensions of war, survival, displacement, sexual violence, childbirth, and mental illness. Tracking the gender lines of trauma and its socio-cultural history, the essays in this volume offer some of the most innovative considerations of emotional and mental distress, traumatic memory and the long term, devastating, impacts of war and sexual violence. In doing so, these scholars collectively disrupt the dominant and linear master narrative, which has considered trauma as a masculine journey travelled through war, from the shell shock of World War I through the neurosis of World War II, to the discovery of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder post the Vietnam War. In this book, trauma is neither linear, gender normative, nor geographically contingent, rather it is a complex fluid phenomenon with collective and personal dimensions that intersect with gender, power, place and time * Lindsey Earner-Byrne, Chair in Irish Gender History at University College Cork, Ireland *

'This is a provocative and exciting work - I look forward to assigning it in my classes someday soon.' * Tricia Starks, Professor of History, University of Arkansas, USA * '[This is] an expert and comparative overview of the gendered experience of trauma in the contemporary world. The work will definitely appeal to teachers for use in both undergraduate and graduate studies in a range of fields mentioned by the authors: sociology, psychology, women's and gender studies, contemporary history, the medical humanities, and others. Both undergraduates and graduates can use the book as the essays (seen so far) contain new research and are engaging.' * Bonnie G. Smith, Professor of History, Rutgers University USA * 'This is a much needed survey and engagement with a topic of increasing interest to academics and the wider public.' * Pamela Scully, Professor of History, Emory University, USA *

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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.

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