Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives

Discourse and subjectivity in oral histories of the Second World War

By (author) Penny Summerfield

Paperback - £17.99

Publication date:

06 August 1998

Length of book:

338 pages

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Dimensions:

216x138mm

ISBN-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.