Books by Joy (University of Melbourne) Damousi

This innovative study of the relationship between language and empire explores the role of language in the greater 'civilising' project of the British Empire through the dissemination and reception of, and challenge to, British English in Australia during the period from the 1840s to the 1940s.

This book, first published in 1999, explores how people dealt with the grief process during and immediately after the two world wars. Based on an examination of private loss through letters and diaries, this study makes a significant contribution to understanding how people came to terms with the deaths of friends and family.

This innovative book marks a new way of looking at convict women, while drawing out broader themes of gender and sexual disorder and race and class dynamics. Damousi looks at the cultural meanings of aspects of life in the colony, and shows how sexual and racial diffrence became a focus for cultural anxiety in colonial society.

This is a major new study which evaluates the enduring impact of war on family memory in the Greek diaspora. Focusing on Australia's Greek immigrants in the aftermath of the Second World War and the Greek Civil War, the book explores the concept of remembrance within the larger context of migration.