Exploring how understandings of masculinity were constructed by British First World war
servicemen through examination of their personal narratives, including letters home from the …

Measuring difference, numbering normal provides a detailed study of the technological
construction of disability by examining how the audiometer and spirometer were used to …

“The war to end all wars” rings out a bitter mockery of the First World War, often viewed as
the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century, the crucible from which Soviet, Fascist, and …

More than 16,000 Canadian soldiers suffered from shell shock during the Great War of 1914
to 1918. Despite significant interest from historians, we still know relatively little about how it …

Unwanted Warriors uncovers the history of Canada's first casualties of the Great War–men
who tried to enlist but were deemed “unfit for service” by medical examiners. Condemned as …

En este artículo, analizaremos las experiencias corporales de hombres y mujeres
españoles para ampliar nuestra comprensión de la sociedad española durante la …

Virginia Woolf s Mrs. Dalloway (1925) and Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony (1977) depict
the trauma suffered by male veterans of war: Septimus Warren Smith, an English veteran of …

As slaves, and then as imperial subjects, the bodies of black Africans and their diasporic
descendants occupied a central place in the white imagination, serving to underpin beliefs …

This article explores changing attitudes towards types of aids for blind people in the interwar
period. The authors focus particularly on the dispute over the relative value of the guide dog …

Since the 1980s, numerous historical studies have provided a complex picture of the
relationship between families and psychiatric institutions. Historians of shell-shock have …