Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives: Discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War

by Penny Summerfield

Overview

Examines the effects of the Second World War on women's sense of themselves. Using oral history it explores the interaction between cultural representations of men and women in the war, and women's own narratives of their wartime lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780719044618
Publisher:	Manchester University Press
Publication date:	08/06/1998
Pages:	338
Product dimensions:	5.43(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Penny Summerfield is Professor of Women's History at Manchester University

Editorial Reviews

Addressing women's personal experiences and understandings of WWII, this volume develops an analysis of memories of wartime as gendered products of an interplay between discourse and subjectivity. The volume's seven chapters include war work and feminine identity; wartime masculinities and gender relations; demobilization and discourses on women's work; and WWII and narratives of personal change. Paper edition (unseen), $29.95. Distributed by St. Martin's. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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