Women's Experiences of the Second World War (eBook, ePUB)

Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life
Redaktion: Crowley, Mark J.; Dawson, Sandra Trudgen

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.

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 ofthe 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.

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.

Contributors: Patricia Chappine, Sylvie Crinquand, Beth Hessel, Sarah Hogenbirk, Regina Lark,Bernice Linder, Alexis Peri, Kelly Spring, Michael Timonin, Angela Wanhalla, Wai-Yin Christina Wong.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781800100954
• Artikelnr.: 62246068

Autorenporträt

Mark J. Crowley, Sandra Trudgen Dawson

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Women's Experiences of the Second World War: Exile,
Occupation and Everyday Life - Mark J. Crowley Introduction: Women's
Experiences of the Second World War: Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life -
Sandra Trudgen Dawson Part One: Living in Exile and under Wartime
Occupation Exiles Serving Exiles on the Homefront: Protestant Missionary
Workers and Japanese Americans - Beth Hessel Memories of Exile: An Alsatian
Woman in German Occupied Alsace, 1939-1945 - Nupur Chaudhuri Entertaining
Exile: Norah O'Hagan and the Flying Herzogs at War, 1939-1945 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 A Friendly Invasion? Maori Women, American Servicemen and the
Legacies of Wartime Mobilisation in New Zealand Interracial Marriage in
Occupied Japan A Moment of Refuge: Transnational Cooperation at Ming Sum
School for the Blind in Occupied Canton in the Second World War
Contradictions and Conformity in a Wartime Boarding House: Gender Roles and
British Food Rationing in the Second World War Part Three: Everyday Life at
Home and on the Battle Front "We Had All Tried to Act like Ladies, but We
Weren't Getting Anywhere." :The Bring Back Daddy Clubs and the
Demobilization of 1945 Womanhood under Fire: Gender Practice and Identity
in Soviet Accounts of the Frontlines "This Is a Woman's War, Too": Canadian
Servicewomen's Wartime Scrapbooks US Military Nurses and the Liberation of
Concentration Camps in the Second World War