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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.

Table of Contents:
PART I: GENDER IDENTITIES AND THE FORCES 1. Battling Contested Air Spaces: The American Women Airforce Service Pilots of World War II; Sarah Myers 2. 'Women don't want us anymore'. Militarism and Masculinity in the Italian War; Lorenzo Benadusi 3. Sanctuary or Sissy? Female impersonation as entertainment in the British Armed Forces, 1939-1945; Emma Vickers and Emma Jackson PART II: CONFORMITY AND DISRUPTION ON THE HOME FRONT 4. CONSPICUOUS CONSUMPTION IN WARTIME? Welsh Mining Communities and Women in Munitions Factories; Ariane Mak 5. Gender and Nazi Espionage: Hildegard Beetz, the Ciano Affair, and Female Agency; Katrin Paehler 6. Regulating Marriage: Gender, the Public Service, the Second World War and Reconstruction in Britain and Canada; Helen Glew PART III: THE MEETING OF MILITARY AND CIVILIAN IDENTITIES 7. 'The saddest symptom of our time': Bigamy cases in Vienna after the Second World War; Helen Steele 8. 'Being a Real Man': Masculinities in Soviet Russia during and after the Great Patriotic War; Robert Dale 9. Pacific Partners: Gendered Memories of the US Marines in Melbourne, 1943; Kate Darian-Smith 10. Conflicted Memories: Images, Realities and Politics of Male Homosexuality in France during the Second World War; Florence Tamagne PART IV: REPRESENTING GENDER IDENTITIES 11. Peculiar Poster Girls: Images of Pacifist Women in American World War II Propaganda; Katherine Jellison 12. Beyond the Dichotomy of Prostitutes versus Sex Slaves: Transnational Feminist Activism of 'Comfort Women' in South Korea and Japan; Sachiyo Tsukamoto 13. The Visual as Memory: Gender, Memory and Chinese Political Cartoons in the Second Sino-Japanese War; Danke Li.

About the Author :
CORINNA PENISTON-BIRD is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancaster, UK EMMA VICKERS is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, UK CORINNA PENISTON-BIRD is Senior Lecturer at the University of Lancaster, UK EMMA VICKERS is Senior Lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, UK


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781137524607
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Red Globe Press
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Gender and History
  • ISBN-10: 113752460X
  • Publisher Date: 16 Sep 2017
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 288
  • Sub Title: Lessons of War


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