South Africa stood at a crossroads during the Second World War.
There existed the potential for creating a new vision for gender
and race roles. It was, however, the very upheaval in society
caused by the war, which led to a rise of conservatism and the
eventual creation of the repressive Apartheid state. This work
argues that examining the war from the perspective of changing
gender roles sheds light not only on civic and family life, but
also on the South African state. Using previously inaccessible
state records on the war era, the book explores a case study of
women's auxiliary military groupings as a lens through which to
view this crossroads. "Gender Under Fire" interrogates the
naturalization of gender roles prevalent across so much of South
Africa as the war opened and probes to what extent this
consolidated or shifted during the course of the war and its
immediate aftermath.
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