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Women and War (Hardcover)
Donna Coates, Jaclyn Carter, Timothy Duffy, David Sigler, Linsey Robb, …
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This is an seven-volume collection of primary texts, each selected
and introduced by experts, reproducing in facsimile a wealth of
materials related to the history of women and warfare in the
English-speaking world. The editors are historians and literary
scholars with a wealth of publications in women's writing and war
literature. The project focuses, for most of its historical range,
on England (and Britain); it also includes volumes on the United
States, Australia, and Canada. The collection documents women's
historical and literary participation in, and commentary on, war.
It represents the first attempt to examine the variety of roles
women have played in war, and as critics and commentators on war,
across all of history into the twentieth century. The project makes
a unique and powerful claim about the long history of women's
involvement in war in the English-speaking world
Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a
result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from
enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted
oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources
and existing archived interviews to explore how this group
articulated their wartime experiences and how they positioned
themselves in relation to the hegemonic discourse of military
masculinity. It considers the range of masculine identities
circulating amongst civilian male workers during the war and
investigates the extent to which reserved workers draw upon these
identities when recalling their wartime selves. It argues that the
Second World War was capable of challenging civilian masculinities,
positioning the civilian man below that of the 'soldier hero'
while, simultaneously, reinforcing them by bolstering the capacity
to provide and to earn high wages, frequently in risky and
dangerous work, all which were key markers of masculinity. -- .
This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research on
British masculinities and male culture, considering the myriad ways
British men experienced, understood and remembered their exploits
during the Second World War, as active combatants, prisoners and as
civilian workers. It examines male identities, roles and
representations in the armed forces, with particular focus on the
RAF, army, volunteers for dangerous duties and prisoners of war,
and on the home front, with case studies of reserved occupations
and Bletchley Park, and examines the ways such roles have been
remembered in post-war years in memoirs, film and memorials. As
such this analysis of previously underexplored male experiences
makes a major contribution to the historiography of Britain in the
Second World War, as well as to socio-cultural history, cultural
studies and gender studies.
Men at Work explores the cultural portrayal of four essential
wartime occupations: agriculture, industry, firefighting and the
mercantile marine. In analysing a broad spectrum of wartime media
(most notably film, radio and visual culture) it establishes a
clear hierarchy of masculine roles in British culture during the
Second World War.
Examines the "home front" war effort from an overall imperial
perspective, assessing the contribution of individual imperial
territories. There is increasing interest in the "home front"
during the Second World War, including issues such as how people
coped with rationing, how women worked to contribute to the war
effort, and how civilian morale fluctuated over time. Most studies
on this subject are confined to Britain, or to a single other
colonial territory, neglecting the fact that Britain controlled a
large Empire and that there were numerous "home fronts", each of
which contributed greatly to the war effort but each in slightly
different ways. This book considers "home fronts" from an overall
imperial perspective and in a broad array of territories -
Australia, India, South Africa, Ceylon, Palestine and Kenya aswell
as Britain. It examines many aspects of wartime life - food,
communications, bombing, volunteering, internment and more, and
discusses important themes including identity, gender, inequality,
and the relationship between civilians and the state. Besides case
studies outlining the detail of the situation in different
territories and in different areas of life, the book assesses "home
fronts" across the Empire in a comprehensive way, setting the case
studies in their wider context, and placing the subject in, and
advancing, the historiography. MARK J. CROWLEY is Associate
Professor of History at Wuhan University, China. SANDRA TRUDGEN
DAWSON is an Instructor in the Department of History at the
University of Maryland. Contributors: NUPUR CHAUDHURI, MARK J.
CROWLEY, SANDRA TRUDGEN DAWSON, NADJA DURBACH, ASHLEY JACKSON,
RITIKA PRASAD, LINSEY ROBB, SHERENE SEIKALY, JEAN SMITH,ANDREW
STEWART, PETER THORSHEIM, CHRISTINE WINTER
This book skilfully brings together cutting-edge historical
research by leading and emerging researchers in the field to
investigate the utilisation of British humour both during the
Second World War and its legacy in British popular culture. Linsey
Robb and Juliette Pattinson lead a cast of esteemed academics and
early career scholars to address a wide variety of situations in
which humour was generated and a diverse range of groups for whom
it was important. By addressing the overarching topic of humour
from a breadth of different perspectives (naval, intelligence,
Conscientious Objectors, medical artists) and by adopting an
original interpretative framework of home front sites (including
the Channel Islands), this books opens up the possibility for a
more variegated, richer analysis of Britain during the Second World
War. By using the lens of humour to scrutinize the social and
cultural history of Britain during the Second World War, it
promises to add critical nuance to our understanding of the
functioning of British wartime society. The result is a rich
addition to existing literature of use to students and scholars
studying the cultural history of war.
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