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Beskrivning
Examines the effects of the Second World War on women's sense of themselves. Using oral history it explores the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in the war, and women's own narratives of their wartime lives.
Penny Summerfield is Professor of Women's History at Manchester University
Innehållsförteckning
Gender, memory and the Second World War; daughters reconstruct their parents - mothers, fathers and wartime mobilization; "heroes" and "stoics" - war work and feminine identity; wartime masculinities and gender relations; feminine bonding and the maintenance of difference; demobilization and discourses of women's work; the Second World War and narratives of personal change. Appendices: "Woman's Weekly", 23rd July 1992, pp 2-3; details of interviewees.
