Friday essay: ‘It’s not over in the homes’ – impotence, domestic violence and former POWs
- Written by Christina Twomey, Professor of History, Monash University
An ex-8th Division prisoner of war is reunited with his family at Ingleburn POW reception camp in New South Wales, November 1945.
Ernest McQuillan/Australian War Memorial, CC BY-SA
“It’s fine to say ‘be a man shake hands with the Japs the war is over’,” Betty, a timber worker’s wife, pleaded in 1958....
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