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1. Introduction: Narrating Death (Caroline Pearce and Carol Komaromy) -- 2. A Kind of Haunting (Carol Komaromy) -- 3. A Death Recalled (Jenny Hockey) -- 4. Continuing and Emerging Bonds: Working Through Grief as a Daughter and an Academic (Kathryn Almack) -- 5. A Bittersweet Legacy (Gordon Riches) -- 6. Two Traumatic Bereavements (Colin Murray Parkes) -- 7. Death, Dislocation and Discovery over Five (or Should That Be Six or Even Seven?) Decades (Rosaline S. Barbour) -- 8. Bereavement, Sacred-Secrecy, and Dreams (Douglas Davies) -- 9. Conclusion: Recovering Ghosts (Caroline Pearce). .

This book uses personal memoir to examine links between private trauma and the socio-cultural approach to death and memory developed within Death Studies. The authors, two key Death Studies scholars, tell the stories that constitute their family lives. Each bears witness to the experiences of men who were either killed or traumatised during World War One and World War Two and shows the ongoing implications of these events for those left behind. The book illustrates how the rich oral history and material culture legacy bequeathed by these wars raises issues for everyone alive today. Belonging to a generation who grew up in the shadow of war, Komaromy and Hockey ask how we can best convey unimaginable events to later generations, and what practical, moral and ethical demands this brings. Family Life, Trauma and Loss in the Twentieth Century will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including Death Studies, Military History, Research Methods, Family History, the Sociology of the Family and Life Writing

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- An Introduction to Understanding Reproductive Loss -- 1 'Infertility' and 'Involuntary Childlessness': Losses, Ambivalences and Resolutions -- 2 International Perspectives on the Sterilization of Women with Intellectual Disabilities -- 3 The Social Shaping of Fertility Loss Due to Cancer Treatment: A Comparative Perspective -- 4 Reconstructing Childbirth Expectations after Pre-eclampsia -- 5 Diabetes and the Pregnancy Paradox: The Loss of Expectations and Reproductive Futures -- 6 'Silent' Miscarriage and Deafening Heteronormativity: A British Experiential and Critical Feminist Account -- 7 Surrogate Losses: Failed Conception and Pregnancy Loss Among American Surrogate Mothers -- 8 Focusing on Force and Forms in Cameroon: Reproductive Loss Reconsidered -- 9 Bereaved Parents: A Contradiction in Terms? -- 10 'Troubling the Normal': 'Angel Babies' and the Canny/Uncanny Nexus -- 11 Baby Gardens: A Privilege or Predicament? -- 12 The Memorialization of Stillbirth in the Internet Age -- 13 'As If She Never Existed': Changing Understandings of Perinatal Loss in Australia in the Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Century -- 14 Hiding Babies: How Birth Professionals Make Sense of Death and Grief -- 15 Managing Emotions at the Time of Stillbirth and Neonatal Death -- 16 Experiences of Reproductive Loss: The Importance of Professional Discretion in Caring for a Patient Group with Diverse Views -- Index.

This collection opens up spaces where lives end, bodies are disposed of and memories generated: hospitals, hospices, care homes, coroners' courts, funeral premises, cemeteries, roadsides, the spirit world. Using material culture studies it illuminates the ways human beings make meaningful the challenges of death, dying and bereavement