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Gender and the Second World War

Lessons of War

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2016-12-16
Mått156 x 234 x 18 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieGender and History
Antal sidor288
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781137524584

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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.