| Description |
xii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index. |
| Contents |
Using women's stories: narratives from oral history -- The research process: finding women's voices -- The research process: in the archives -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Sexuality in Wartime -- Allies or occupiers? -- Absent servicemen and compulsory billeting -- Women's welfare -- Venereal diseases and woman 'the amateur' -- War and Her-Stories--A Different Kind of Heroism. |
| Subject |
World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- Great Britain.
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Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0333760867 |
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