Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Reconstructing Civilization in Postwar Culture
2: Culture Shock: Trauma, Pleasure, and Visual Memory
3: Monumental Classicism: Healing the Western Body
4: The Sexual Reconstruction of Men
5: The 'Golden Age of Woman'
6: Performing the New Civilization
Conclusion: Healing and Forgetting
Bibliography

About the Author

Ana Carden-Coyne is Co-Director for the Centre for the Cultural History of War at the University of Manchester.

Reviews

The variety of sources Carden-Coyne engages with - ranging from medical literature, contemporary academic debates, architecture, visual art and popular magazines - provide a thematic breadth that make her work unique.
*Michael Hau, Social History of Medicine.*

The book is ambitious and offers the reader a vast amount of diverse information to digest.
*Susie Kilshaw, Journal of Biosocial Science*