Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War

1. Becoming Visible: Gendering the Study of Men at War
Linsey Robb, Juliette Pattinson

Part I. The ‘Soldier Hero’

2. Fantasies of the ‘Soldier Hero’, Frustrations of the Jedburghs
Juliette Pattinson

3. ‘Man, Lunatic or Corpse’: Fear, Wounding and Death in the British Army, 1939–45
Emma Newlands

4. ‘Pinky Smith Looks Gorgeous!’ Female Impersonators and Male Bonding in Prisoner of War Camps for British Servicemen in Europe
Clare Makepeace

5. Becoming ‘a Man’ During the Battle of Britain: Combat, Masculinity and Rites of Passage in the Memoirs of ‘the Few’
Frances Houghton

Part II. The Home Front Man

6. Rebuilding ‘Real Men’: Work and Working-Class Male Civilian Bodies in Wartime
Arthur McIvor

7. ‘Bright Chaps for Hush-Hush Jobs’: Masculinity, Class and Civilians in Uniform at Bletchley Park
Chris Smith

8. ‘The Cushy Number’: Civilian Men in British Post-war Representations of the Second World War
Linsey Robb

9. Commemorating Invisible Men: Reserved Occupations in Bronze and Stone
Corinna Peniston-Bird

Nyckelord: History, History of World War II and the Holocaust, Social History, History of Military, Cultural History, Gender Studies