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Women, Sexuality and War

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  • © 2002

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  1. Philomena Goodman
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Philomena Goodman
    Pages 1-14

  3. For the Duration: Place, Space and Gender

    • Philomena Goodman
    Pages 15-28

  4. Domestication of Industrial Employment

    • Philomena Goodman
    Pages 29-51

  5. Women on the Factory Floor

    • Philomena Goodman
    Pages 53-73

  6. Women in the Services: Morals or Morale?

    • Philomena Goodman
    Pages 75-99

  7. Patriotic Femininity on the Home Front

    • Philomena Goodman
    Pages 101-125

  8. Sexuality in Wartime

    • Philomena Goodman
    Pages 127-155

  9. War and Her-Stories – A Different Kind of Heroism

    • Philomena Goodman
    Pages 157-164

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 165-180
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This book examines women's experiences in Britain during the Second World War, drawing on women's own memories and archival sources. It explores the myths and silences surrounding women's contribution to the war effort. Part of the text is devoted to women's experience of paid employment and how their sexuality became a contentious workplace issue. This theme is continued in the accounting for the sexuality of women on other spaces and places and how women re-negotiated their femininity, and thus their own 'war experiences'.

About the author

PHILOMENA GOODMAN has lectured in Women's Studies, Sociology and Politics in both further and higher education. From 1997-98 she was Coordinator of Gender Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She has published an article in the journal Gender and History.

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