| Description |
xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1 For the Duration: Place, Space and Gender -- Constructing patriotic femininity -- Space, place and gender -- State regulation of everyday life - in loco parentis -- Containing dangerous sexualities -- Maintaining gendered places/spaces -- 2 Domestication of Industrial Employment -- Women's pre-war patterns of employment -- Early wartime employment policies and practices -- Compulsion of woman-power: the debate and the policy -- Women's experience of war work -- 3 Women on the Factory Floor -- Woman-power and employers' interests -- Trade unions and woman-power -- Woman-power and the sexual double standard -- A process of containment -- 4 Women in the Services: Morals or Morale? -- Woman-power and military spaces -- Woman-power as auxiliary -- Women on the front line -- War, morality and femininity -- Morals and morale -- 5 Patriotic Femininity on the Home Front -- Women on the home front -- Women in male spaces -- Women in the male gaze: the pin-up -- Advertising and the beauty myth -- Romance, gallivanting and drifting -- 6 Sexuality in Wartime -- Allies or occupiers? -- Absent servicemen and compulsory billeting -- Women's welfare -- Venereal diseases and woman 'the amateur' -- 7 War and Her-Stories - A Different Kind of Heroism.ese-English Phon |
| Summary |
The Second World War witnessed struggles for the definition of appropriate feminine identities and behavior. Social and political conditions during the War threatened existing gender relations and throughout the war, "woman" was the target of regulation and surveillance. Women's presence in industry, the military and other traditionally masculine public spheres made women's sexuality a contentious issue. Women's morals were increasingly related to British male morale. While the heroic myths of the War are male, women's own accounts show how they consciously negotiated their lives through that fractured gendered time and space. How far the disruptions of war time challenge perceptions of feminine behavior remains controversial. This revealing book gives voice to the complicated history of gender at a time of crisis and conflict |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Great Britain.
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Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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| LC no. |
2001044717 |
| ISBN |
0333760867 |
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