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Women, sexuality, and war / Philomena Goodman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goodman, Philomena, 1957-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Great Britain.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Sex role--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Sex role.
- History.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 180 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave, 2002.
- Contents:
- Using women's stories: narratives from oral history 5
- The research process: finding women's voices 8
- The research process: in the archives 10
- 1 For the Duration: Place, Space and Gender 15
- Constructing patriotic femininity 15
- Space, place and gender 18
- State regulation of everyday life
- in loco parentis 20
- Containing dangerous sexualities 22
- Maintaining gendered places/spaces 25
- 2 Domestication of Industrial Employment 29
- Women's pre-war patterns of employment 29
- Early wartime employment policies and practices 31
- Compulsion of woman-power: the debate and the policy 37
- Women's experience of war work 45
- 3 Women on the Factory Floor 53
- Woman-power and employers' interests 53
- Trade unions and woman-power 58
- Woman-power and the sexual double standard 65
- A process of containment 71
- 4 Women in the Services: Morals or Morale? 75
- Woman-power and military spaces 75
- Woman-power as auxiliary 82
- Women on the front line 87
- War, morality and feminity 90
- Morals and morale 96
- 5 Patriotic Femininity on the Home Front 101
- Women on the home front 101
- Women in male spaces 104
- Women in the male gaze: the pin-up 110
- Advertising and the beauty myth 114
- Romance, gallivanting and drifting 119
- 6 Sexuality in Wartime 127
- Allies or occupiers? 127
- Absent servicemen and compulsory billeting 137
- Women's welfare 142
- Venereal diseases and woman 'the amateur' 147
- 7 War and Her-Stories
- A Different Kind of Heroism 157.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-176) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1891 Department of Arts Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0333760867
- OCLC:
- 47863227
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