'Dear Aunty Eleanor': Eleanor Roosevelt, Anna Freud and the politics of emotion in letters by children in war
In: Social history, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 338-362
ISSN: 1470-1200
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In: Social history, Band 48, Heft 3, S. 338-362
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: Journal of women's history, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 111-134
ISSN: 1527-2036
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 65, Heft 4, S. 549-565
ISSN: 1467-8497
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 64, Heft 2, S. 211-226
ISSN: 1467-8497
Between 1957 and 1968, the Prime Minister Robert Menzies and several of his ministers, including Alexander Downer, the Minister for Immigration from 1958 to 1963, were inundated with hundreds of letters of protest demanding that action be taken to assist Japanese children fathered by Australian soldiers who had been stationed in Japan during the Allied occupation and beyond it between 1946 and 1956. The response from the Australian public forms the basis of this article to consider how attempts for the transnational movement of children in the postwar period point to understandings of humanitarianism at this time. The response to the predicament of the Japanese‐Australian children offers, I argue, an intriguing narrative of postwar humanitarianism that articulates the beginning of several historic shifts. The incident points to the growing challenge to the White Australia Policy, paradoxically on racialised and paternalistic grounds to bring white Australian children to Australia. The government shifted the discussion from one of immigration to foreign aid as a way of diffusing the public response and in doing so positioned itself in the new narrative about supporting rehabilitation and development. The media was crucial in evoking a response that depoliticized the issue of responsibility by reducing it to an emotional reaction.
In: The history of the family: an international quarterly, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 466-484
ISSN: 1081-602X
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 29, Heft 80, S. 189-203
ISSN: 1465-3303
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 59, Heft 4, S. 501-516
ISSN: 1467-8497
This article argues that the assimilation policy adopted by the Australian government during the 1950s was based on a denial of a migrant's past. The assumption that the migrant would readily merge into Australian cultural life ignored the ways in which past stories and memories shape the self. Through an analysis of the Good Neighbour Councils I explore the nature of assimilation that was based on a neglect of collective war memories of immigrant groups. This perspective is distinguished from that adopted by several theorists of the day such as W.D. Borrie and Jean Martin whose studies were less crude and one‐dimensional. The experiences of Greek migrants are examined to consider how Greek war stories could not often find expression or recognition in the assimilationist climate of the post‐war period.
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 59, Heft 4, S. 501-516
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: Social history, Band 37, Heft 3, S. 297-313
ISSN: 1470-1200
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 53, Heft 3, S. 436-450
ISSN: 1467-8497
This article considers the way in which the Great War created unique conditions where medical intellectuals became part of a wider canvas of debate about psychology and medicine; mind and body; and, more broadly, crossed the artificial divide between the humanities and the medical sciences. Medicine has not been usually identified as a field for "intellectuals" as such. The nature of cultural and social analysis lends itself more readily to those working in the fields of sociology, political science, literature and history. But the medical intellectuals who are the subject of this article can be seen as extending our understanding of the relationship between the self and society. Such an intellectual engagement was considerably assisted, it is argued, by the advent of the Medical Journal of Australia a month before the outbreak of war. which initially served to document practices associated with medical science, but quickly evolved into a journal that connected medicine to the broader society and wider culture. The devastating impact of the war provided an extraordinary context within which these discussions took place, and radically challenged many assumptions held by the medical profession, especially with regard to the relationship between the mind and the body.
In: The Australian journal of politics and history: AJPH, Band 53, Heft 3, S. 436-450
ISSN: 0004-9522
In: Social history of medicine, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 157-158
ISSN: 1477-4666
In: Labour history: a journal of labour and social history, Heft 87, S. 11
ISSN: 1839-3039
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 15, Heft 33, S. 315-316
ISSN: 1465-3303
In: Australian feminist studies, Band 15, Heft 32, S. 293-294
ISSN: 1465-3303