Women's experiences of the Second World War : exile, occupation and everyday life / edited by Mark J. Crowley and Sandra Trudgen Dawson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crowley, Mark J., editor.

Dawson, Sandra Trudgen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Women.

World War, 1939-1945.

Women and war--20th century.

Women and war.

Women.

Physical Description:

xx, 224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2021.

Biography/History:

Mark J. Crowley is an Associate Professor at the David Eccles Business School, University of Utah.

Sandra Trudgen Dawson is the Executive Administrator of the Berkshire Conference of Women's History.

Summary:

"Many existing studies on the role of women in the Second World War concentrate on women's increasing participation in the workplace and on their struggles to cope with rationing and shortages. This book goes further, exploring women's wartime experiences much more fully. Drawing on a wide range of sources including oral interviews, scrapbooks, personal letters, diaries, newspaper articles, Mass Observation files and memoirs, the book illustrates some of the similarities and differences of women's wartime experiences in different situations in different countries. Specific subjects covered include experiences of exile and living under occupation, of coping with proximity to fighting and to the frontline, and of dealing with everyday life in trying circumstances. The book draws out how factors such as political beliefs, nationalism, economics, religion, ability, geography and culture all had an impact. Overall, the book reveals a great deal about the complexities and nuances of women's experiences in this period of enormous upheaval."-- Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction. Women's experiences of the Second World War : exile, occupation and everyday life / Mark J. Crowley and Sandra Trudgen Dawson

Part One. Living in exile and under wartime occupation

1. Exiles serving exiles on the homefront : Protestant missionary workers and Japanese Americans / Beth Shalom Hessel

2. Memories of exile : an Alsatian woman in German occupied Alsace, 1939-1945 / Nupur Chaudhuri

3. Entertaining exile : Norah O'Hagan and the Flying Herzogs at war, 1939-1945 / Bernice Lindner

4. The war diaries of Hélène Berr and Etty Hillesum : Jewish women in occupied Paris and Amsterdam, 1941-1944 / Sylvie Crinquand

Part Two. Living with wartime occupiers

5. A friendly invasion? Māori women, American servicemen and the legacies of wartime mobilisation in New Zealand / Angela Wanhalla

6. Interracial marriage in occupied Japan / Regina F. Lark

7. A moment of refuge : transnational cooperation at Ming Sum School for the Blind in occupied Canton in the Second World War / Wai-Yin Christina Wong

8. Contradictions and conformity in a wartime boarding house : gender roles and British food rationing in the Second World War / Kelly A. Spring

Part Three. Everyday life at home and on the battle front

9. 'We had all tried to act like ladies, but we weren't getting anywhere.' : the Bring Back Daddy Clubs and the demobilization of 1945 / Michael Timonin

10. Womanhood under fire : gender practice and identity in Soviet accounts of the frontlines / Alexis Peri

11. 'This is a woman's war, too' : Canadian servicewomen's wartime scrapbooks / Sarah Hogenbirk

12. US military nurses and the liberation of concentration camps in the Second World War / Patricia Chappine.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Scott fund bookplate.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781783275878

1783275871

OCLC:

1242771390