Victims of war: The first world war, returned soldiers, and understandings of domestic violence in Australia

Journal of Women's History

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages

  Nelson, Elizabeth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

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EID: 67650434120     PISSN: 10427961     EISSN: 15272036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jowh.2007.0068     Document Type: Article

References (60)

1. For Australian examples see Judith Allen, Sex and Secrets: Crimes Involving Australian Women Since 1880 (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1990);
2. Joy Damousi, Living with the Aftermath: Trauma, Nostalgia and Grief in Post-war Australia (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001);
3. and N. Giblett, ed., Homecomings: Stories of Australian Vietnam Veterans and their Wives (Canberra: AGPS, 1990).
4. For contemporary theories of domestic violence see Lori Heise and Claudia Garcia-Moreno, "Violence by Intimate Partners," in World Report on Violence and Health, ed. Etienne Krug et al. (Geneva: World Health Organisation, 2002), 89-121;
5. Jana L. Jasinski, "Theoretical Explanations for Violence Against Women," in Sourcebook on Violence Against Women, ed. Claire M. Renzetti, Jeffrey L. Edleson, and Raquel Kennedy Bergen (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2001), 5-21;
6. and Michele Harway and James M. O'Neil, "Revised Multivariate Model Explaining Men's Risk Factors for Violence Against Women," in What Causes Men's Violence Against Women?, ed. Michele Harway and James M. O'Neil (London: Sage Publications, 1999), 207-41.
7. Elizabeth Windschuttle, "Women, Crime and Punishment," in Women & Crime, ed. S. K. Mukherjee and Jocelynne Scutt (Sydney: George Allen & Unwin, 1981), 37, 40;
8. Judith Allen, "The Invention of the Pathological Family: A Historical Study of Family Violence in NSW," in Family Violence in Australia, ed. Carol O'Donnell and Jan Craney (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire, 1982), 9.
9. John Litherland, The Law Relating to Maintenance of Wives and Children who are Deserted or Left Without Means of Support in Australasia and New Zealand, 2nd ed. (Sydney: The Law Book Co. of Australia, 1959), 97.
10. See Allen, "Invention of the Pathological Family," 14, 21;
11. Judith Allen, "Desperately Seeking Solutions: Changing Battered Women's Options since 1880," in National Conference on Domestic Violence: Proceedings, Volume 1, ed. S. Hatty (Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1986), 119-36;
12. Allen, Sex and Secrets, 108-27.
13. The emergence of a psychological understanding of domestic violence occurred in other western countries in the first half of the twentieth century: see Elizabeth Pleck, Domestic Tyranny: The Making of Social Policy Against Family Violence from Colonial Times to the Present (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
14. Ernest Scott, The Official History of Australia in the War of 1914-1918. Volume XI: Australia During the War (Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1936), 874.
15. Alistair Thomson, "Steadfast Until Death? C. E. W. Bean and the Representation of Military Manhood," Australian Historical Studies 23, no. 93 (October 1989): 462-78.
16. Allen, "Invention of the Pathological Family," 6.
17. See also Allen, Sex and Secrets, 118, 130-41.
18. Stephen Garton, The Cost of War: Australians Return (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1996), 153.
19. See also Joanna Bourke, "Shell Shock and Australian Soldiers in the Great War," Sabretache 36 (July-September 1995): 3-10;
20. Butler, Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 99, 142;
21. W. R. Regnell, "The Psycho-Neuroses of War," Medical Journal of Australia 1, no. 23 (1919): 458.
22. Butler, Official History of the Australian Army Medical Services, 105;
23. Millais Culpin, Psychoneuroses of War and Peace (Cambridge: University Press, 1920), 47;
24. J. W. Springthorpe, "War Neuroses and Civil Practice," Medical Journal of Australia 2, no. 14 (1919): 279-84;
25. Sidney I. Schwab, "The Mechanism of the War Neuroses," The Journal of Abnormal Psychology 14, nos. 1-2 (1919): 1-8;
26. Regnell, "The PsychoNeuroses of War," 455, 458.
27. Schwab, "Mechanism," 4;
28. Charles Bird, "From Home to the Charge: A Psychological Study of the Soldier," The American Journal of Psychology 28, no. 3 (1917): 333;
29. Stephen Garton, "Freud Versus the Rat: Understanding Shell Shock in World War I," Australian Cultural History 16 (1997-1998): 53-55;
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31. Regnell, "The Psycho-Neuroses of War," 455.
32. Camberwell & Hawthorn Advertiser, 24 February 1917;
33. Alistair Thomson, Anzac Memories: Living with the Legend (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1994), 109;
34. Dale Blair, Dinkum Diggers: An Australian Battalion at War (Carlton South: Melbourne University Press, 2001), 194.
35. Alistair Thomson, "The Return of a Soldier," in Memories & Dreams: Reflections on 20th Century Australia, ed. Richard White and Penny Russell (St. Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1997), 62.
36. Garton, "Freud Versus the Rat," 51.
37. Michael Cathcart, Defending the National Tuckshop: Australia's Secret Army Intrigue of 1931 (Fitzroy: McPhee Gribble, 1988), 91-92;
38. Garton, The Cost of War, 197.
39. Victorian Year Books, 1919-1920.
40. Bourke, "Shell Shock," 8-10.
41. Alfred W. McCoy, Drug Traffic: Narcotics and Organized Crime in Australia (Sydney: Harper & Row, 1980), 82-86;
42. Geelong Advertiser, 27 April 1928, 1.
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49. R. W. Connell, Masculinities (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1995), 84;
50. John Archer, "Power and Male Violence," in Male Violence, ed. John Archer (London: Routledge, 1994), 310-31;
51. Jeff Hearn, "Men's Violence to Known Women: Historical, Everyday and Theoretical Constructions by Men," in Violence and Gender Relations: Theories and Interventions, ed. B. Fawcett et al. (Thousand Oaks: Sage, 1996), 31;
52. Lynne Segal, Slow Motion: Changing Masculinities, Changing Men (London: Virago Press, 1990), 252.
53. Pease, Recreating Men, 98;
54. Ola W. Barnett, Cindy L. Miller-Perrin, and Robin D. Perrin, Family Violence Across the Lifespan: An Introduction (Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1997), 197.
55. See Nelson, "Homefront Hostilities," appendix.
56. Damousi, Living With the Aftermath, 110-38.
57. Marilyn Lake, A Divided Society: Tasmania During World War I (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 1975), 187.
58. Herbert M. Moran, Viewless Winds: Being the Recollections and Digressions of an Australian Surgeon (London: Peter Davies, 1939), 149.
59. Peter Cochrane, "Deliverance and Renewal: The Origins of the Simpson Legend," Journal of the Australian War Memorial 16 (April 1990): 18, 20-21;
60. Cathcart, Defending the National Tuckshop, 88.