Women's Experiences of the Second World War

Mark J. Crowley is an Associate Professor at the David Eccles Business School, University of Utah. Sandra Trudgen Dawson is the Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women's History. Mark J. Crowley is an Associate Professor at the David Eccles Business School, University of Utah. Sandra Trudgen Dawson is the Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women's History.

• Introduction: Women's Experiences of the Second World War: Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life - Mark J. CrowleyIntroduction: Women's Experiences of the Second World War: Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life - Sandra Trudgen DawsonPart One: Living in Exile and under Wartime OccupationExiles Serving Exiles on the Homefront: Protestant Missionary Workers and Japanese Americans - Beth HesselMemories of Exile: An Alsatian Woman in German Occupied Alsace, 1939-1945 - Nupur ChaudhuriEntertaining Exile: Norah O'Hagan and the Flying Herzogs at War, 1939-1945The War Diaries of Hélène Berr and Etty Hillesum: Jewish Women in Occupied Paris and Amsterdam, 1941-1944 - Sylvie CrinquandPart Two: Living with Wartime OccupiersA Friendly Invasion? Maori Women, American Servicemen and the Legacies of Wartime Mobilisation in New ZealandInterracial Marriage in Occupied JapanA Moment of Refuge: Transnational Cooperation at Ming Sum School for the Blind in Occupied Canton in the Second World WarContradictions and Conformity in a Wartime Boarding House: Gender Roles and British Food Rationing in the Second World WarPart Three: Everyday Life at Home and on the Battle Front"We Had All Tried to Act like Ladies, but We Weren't Getting Anywhere." :The Bring Back Daddy Clubs and the Demobilization of 1945Womanhood under Fire: Gender Practice and Identity in Soviet Accounts of the Frontlines"This Is a Woman's War, Too": Canadian Servicewomen's Wartime ScrapbooksUS Military Nurses and the Liberation of Concentration Camps in the Second World War

This edited collection of essays provides fascinating insights into women's experiences of waron a truly global scale. [...] Overall, the strengths of this edited volume are the range, diversity and richness of the case study material that is core to all twelve chapters. It is illuminating to read across the different contexts presented - from Māori women in New Zealand to Soviet female combatants. Thisgives the reader a refreshingly global perspective on women's experiences of war and countersthe often geographically segmented histories (European, North American, South East Asian,Pacifc, and Antipodean, etc) upon which comparative gender history can be built.