Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives
Discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War
By (author) Penny Summerfield
Publication date:
06 August 1998Length of book:
338 pagesPublisher
Manchester University PressDimensions:
216x138mmISBN-13: 9780719044618
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.