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War and the British
Gender and National Identity, 1939-91
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Description
Popular memory of World War II was the dominant factor contributing to a sense of national identity in the Falklands War of 1982 and the Gulf War of 1991. This book examines public and private ideas of national identity, how they were arrived at and the extent to which they were shaped by gender. It provides a synthesis between the key concepts of "national identity", "popular memory" and gender as a social and cultural construct. Recent studies of World War II, and popular memory of the war, have focused on the extent to which it is remembered as a "people's war". This book builds on this work by examining how ideas about gender shaped the experiences of the war and its memory and concludes that despite women's wartime role in "total war", men in the armed forces were encouraged to regard themselves as being bound together in unity by masculinity and common experience, while women remained individuals with prime responsibilities to home and family. Their role as active participants remained "problematic" and remained problematic after the Gulf War in 1991.
Table of Contents
2. Making Histories: The Popular Memory of the Second World War
3. The Public Construction of Gender Roles in Wartime
4. Mass-Observation, Gender and National Identity in the Second World War
5. Gender, National Identity and Memory: The Falklands War
6. Gender, National Identity and Memory: The Gulf War
Conclusion
Product details
| Published | 21 Apr 2022 |
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| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 232 |
| ISBN | 9781350183162 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Social and Cultural History Today |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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