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Abstract
Showing how gender history contributes to existing understandings of the Second World War, this book offers detail and context on the national and transnational experiences of men and women during the war. Following a general introduction, the essays shed new light on the field and illustrate methods of working with a wide range of primary sources.
CORINNA PENISTON-BIRD is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancaster, UK
EMMA VICKERS is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Showing how gender history contributes to existing understandings of the Second World War, this book offers detail and context on the national and transnational experiences of men and women during the war. Following a general introduction, the essays shed new light on the field and illustrate methods of working with a wide range of primary sources.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cover | Cover | ||
| Contents | vii | ||
| List of Tables and Figures | ix | ||
| List of Abbreviations | xi | ||
| Acknowledgements | xiii | ||
| List of Contributors | xv | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Part 1 Gender Identities in the Forces | 9 | ||
| 1 Battling Contested Airspaces: The American Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II | 11 | ||
| 2 ‘Women don’t want us anymore’: Militarism and Masculinity in the Italian War | 25 | ||
| 3 Sanctuary or Sissy? Female Impersonation as Entertainment in the British Armed Forces, 1939–1945 | 40 | ||
| Part 2 Conformity and Disruption on the Home Front | 53 | ||
| 4 Conspicuous Consumption in Wartime? Welsh Mining Communities and Women in Munitions Factories | 55 | ||
| 5 Gender and Nazi Espionage: Hildegard Beetz, the Ciano Affair, and Female Agency | 73 | ||
| 6 Regulating Marriage: Gender, the Public Service, the Second World War, and Reconstruction in Britain and Canada | 88 | ||
| Part 3 The Meeting of Military and Civilian Identities | 101 | ||
| 7 ‘The saddest symptom of our time’: Bigamy cases in Vienna after the Second World War | 103 | ||
| 8 ‘Being a Real Man’: Masculinities in Soviet Russia during and after the Great Patriotic War | 116 | ||
| 9 Pacific Partners: Gendered Memories of the US Marines in Melbourne, 1943 | 135 | ||
| 10 Conflicted Memories: Images, Realities, and Politics of Male Homosexuality in France during the Second World War | 151 | ||
| Part 4 Representing Gender Identities | 169 | ||
| 11 Peculiar Poster Girls: Images of Pacifist Women in American World War II Propaganda | 171 | ||
| 12 Beyond the Dichotomy of Prostitutes versus Sex Slaves: Transnational Feminist Activism of ‘Comfort Women’ in South Korea and Japan | 185 | ||
| 13 The Visual as Memory: Gender, Memory, and Chinese Political Cartoons in the Second Sino-Japanese War | 200 | ||
| Index | 221 |