What effect did the two world wars have on the relations between women and men? Drawing on broad comparative material-from government policy to popular media, poetry and fiction, and personal letters-this book examines the redefinition of gender that occurred in many Western countries during both world wars. "A major addition to the literature on gender relations and war."-Helena Lewis, Women's Review of Books "One of the first, and certainly the most exciting, treatments of war as an event of gender politics."-Choice "A substantial contribution to the social history of this century."-Anne Summers, Times Literary Supplement "These essays powerfully demonstrate how much the world wars provided battlegrounds not only for nations but for the sexes."-Michael S. Sherry, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science "A work of lively, engaged scholarship.... This is an important contribution to current debates about war and human identity, war and political reality, war and transformative possibility."-Jean Bethke Elshtain
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Behind the Lines is an interesting and widely researched book ideal for university students or those interested in women's roles during the Second World War or more generally the Home Front. It has been extremely useful for my history degree, masters and I am certain that it will continue to be useful for my PhD. The chapter on 'The Double Helix' is particularly fascinating, Margaret Higonnet and Patrice Higonnet suggest that women were unable to equal the position that men held economically and socially during the Second World War, by implying that as soon as women moved into the male work space, men in uniform as part of the British army, were viewed as superior to women. Therefore the pre war gender divide was maintained whereby women were in a subordinate civilian position to the male superior military one. By including contributions from a number of different historians ensures that a variety of view points are expressed and a substantial historiography has been developed.
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