I. The Management of Neurotic Affections in Military Practice

Parkinson, Clare

doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1940.tb53691.x

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“…C. K. Parkinson concluded that 'many men of subnormal mental grade make useful soldiers'. 45 On return, these men, bitter at the loss of their outlet, lapsed into lower social ranks and often turned to crime or welfare as their support, unable to meet the challenge of reintegrating into civilian society. Doctors believed they sought pensions for problems that had nothing to do with war.…”

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‘Fit Only for the Scrap Heap’: Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia after 1945

Garton

2008

Gender & History

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This paper examines the expert and popular discourses that sought to construct and disseminate the idea that Australia faced a masculinity crisis with the return of servicemen at the end of the Second World War. It explores how these discourses proposed a process of remasculinisation to ensure the successful reintegration of returning servicemen. These discourses were directed primarily at wives, mothers and fiancées, who were seen to bear the responsibility for rebuilding the manhood of returning men. Doctors played an important role in producing this prevailing discourse on the looming post‐war masculinity crisis, identifying its symptoms and proposing solutions. This crisis discourse filtered into popular culture through many means, predominantly, however, advice literature and romance fiction. While some of these expert and popular discourses constructed a backward looking ideal of domesticity for women, romance fiction in particular explored more modern possibilities of companionate marriage. The dissemination of a discourse about an impending masculinity crisis created different possibilities for the reconstruction of relations between men and women. The remasculinisation project could look both backwards (through ideals of women's subservience to damaged men) and forwards (through notions of marriage as a partnership) in imagining post war gender relations.

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Section: Returned Men and The Australian Home Frontmentioning

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‘Fit Only for the Scrap Heap’: Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia after 1945

Garton

2008

Gender & History

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I. The Management of Neurotic Affections in Military Practice

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‘Fit Only for the Scrap Heap’: Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia after 1945

‘Fit Only for the Scrap Heap’: Rebuilding Returned Soldier Manhood in Australia after 1945

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