Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives

Penny Summerfield is Professor of Women's History at Manchester University

• Gender, memory and the Second World War; daughters reconstruct their parents - mothers, fathers and wartime mobilization; "heroes" and "stoics" - war work and feminine identity; wartime masculinities and gender relations; feminine bonding and the maintenance of difference; demobilization and discourses of women's work; the Second World War and narratives of personal change. Appendices: "Woman's Weekly", 23rd July 1992, pp 2-3; details of interviewees.