Gender and the Second World War

CORINNA PENISTON-BIRD is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancaster, UKEMMA VICKERS is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, UK

• PART I: GENDER IDENTITIES AND THE FORCES1. Battling Contested Air Spaces: The American Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II; Sarah Myers2. 'Women don't want us anymore'. Militarism and Masculinity in the Italian War; Lorenzo Benadusi3. Sanctuary or Sissy? Female impersonation as entertainment in the British Armed Forces, 1939-1945; Emma Vickers and Emma JacksonPART II: CONFORMITY AND DISRUPTION ON THE HOME FRONT4. CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION IN WARTIME? Welsh Mining Communities and Women in Munitions Factories; Ariane Mak5. Gender and Nazi Espionage: Hildegard Beetz, the Ciano Affair, and Female Agency; Katrin Paehler6. Regulating Marriage: Gender, the Public Service, the Second World War and Reconstruction in Britain and Canada; Helen GlewPART III: THE MEETING OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN IDENTITIES7. 'The saddest symptom of our time': Bigamy cases in Vienna after the Second World War; Helen Steele8. 'Being a Real Man': Masculinities in Soviet Russia during and after the Great Patriotic War; Robert Dale9. Pacific Partners: Gendered Memories of the US Marines in Melbourne, 1943; Kate Darian-Smith10. Conflicted Memories: Images, Realities and Politics of Male Homosexuality in France during the Second World War; Florence TamagnePART IV: REPRESENTING GENDER IDENTITIES11. Peculiar Poster Girls: Images of Pacifist Women in American World War II Propaganda; Katherine Jellison12. Beyond the Dichotomy of Prostitutes versus Sex Slaves: Transnational Feminist Activism of 'Comfort Women' in South Korea and Japan; Sachiyo Tsukamoto13. The Visual as Memory: Gender, Memory and Chinese Political Cartoons in the Second Sino-Japanese War; Danke Li.