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TY - JOUR
T1 - The grieving male in memorialization
T2 - monuments of discretion
AU - Peniston-Bird, Corinna Maretyn
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - In 2007, the Armed Forces Memorial was unveiled in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. Its sculptures (Ian Rank-Broadley) include the grief-stricken family of a fallen soldier: his wife and son, his distraught mother and stoic father. The representation of bereaved civilian males in commemorative activities and representations is more rare and complex than the attribution of sacrifice, victimhood and patriotism accorded to female relatives, however. This paper examines the marginalization and mobilization of the male, and in particular the father, in public coverage of the casualties of war and more specifically on war memorials from the First World War to the present. It is a theme permeated by constructions of intersecting genders: of the fallen, of those left behind and of the war effort itself within and beyond the war years.
AB - In 2007, the Armed Forces Memorial was unveiled in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. Its sculptures (Ian Rank-Broadley) include the grief-stricken family of a fallen soldier: his wife and son, his distraught mother and stoic father. The representation of bereaved civilian males in commemorative activities and representations is more rare and complex than the attribution of sacrifice, victimhood and patriotism accorded to female relatives, however. This paper examines the marginalization and mobilization of the male, and in particular the father, in public coverage of the casualties of war and more specifically on war memorials from the First World War to the present. It is a theme permeated by constructions of intersecting genders: of the fallen, of those left behind and of the war effort itself within and beyond the war years.
KW - fathers
KW - brothers
KW - mourning
KW - memorials
KW - World War
KW - Great Britain
U2 - 10.1179/1752628014Y.0000000017
DO - 10.1179/1752628014Y.0000000017
M3 - Journal article
VL - 8
SP - 41
EP - 56
JO - Journal of War and Culture Studies
JF - Journal of War and Culture Studies
SN - 1752-6272
IS - 1
ER -