Overview
- Assesses male identities, roles and representations during the Second World War
- Brings together cutting-edge research examining both military and civilian experiences of wartime
- Provides an overview of recent research in the subject area of masculinities and warfare
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)
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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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The ‘Soldier Hero’
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The Home Front Man
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Linsey Robb is Lecturer in History at Northumbria University, UK, and is a social and cultural historian specialising in the study of gender in the Second World War. Key publications include Men at Work (Palgrave, 2015), and Men in Reserve (2017), co-authored with Juliette Pattinson and Arthur McIvor. She is currently researching British conscientious objection during the Second World War.
Juliette Pattinson is Reader at the University of Kent, UK, and a gender historian specialising in the Second World War. Key publications include Behind Enemy Lines (2007), Men in Reserve (2017) and three co-edited collections: Fighting for Britain? (2015), British Cultural Memory and the Second World War (2014) and War in a Twilight World (2010).
Juliette Pattinson is Reader at the University of Kent, UK, and a gender historian specialising in the Second World War. Key publications include Behind Enemy Lines (2007), Men in Reserve (2017) and three co-edited collections: Fighting for Britain? (2015), British Cultural Memory and the Second World War (2014) and War in a Twilight World (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War
Editors: Linsey Robb, Juliette Pattinson
Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95290-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95289-2Published: 17 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95787-3Published: 23 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95290-8Published: 04 November 2017
Series ISSN: 2730-9479
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 218
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Social History, History of Military, Cultural History, Gender Studies