Men in Reserve - British Civilian Masculinities in the Second World War

Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials.

List of contents

1. Men in reserve: recovering the civilian man
2. Raising an 'industrial army': the policy of reservation in the First and Second
World Wars
3. 'Making a contribution to the war effort': reactions to reserved status,
masculinity and the military
4. Grafters not shirkers: reserved men at work
5. Bodies on the line: risk, health and manliness
6. Outside the factory gates: reserved life on the home front
7. Forgotten: the missing legacy of Britain's reserved occupations
Concluding thoughts
Index

About the author

Juliette Pattinson is Reader in History at the University of Kent

Summary

Men in reserve provides the first nationwide study of the reserved occupations, bringing together a wide range of sources including new oral histories, autobiographies, archive, visual and film materials. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Arthur Mcivor, Juliette Pattinson, Juliette Mcivor Pattinson, Linsey Robb
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2017
• EAN: 9781526100696
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-0069-6
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Cultural History of Modern War; Cultural History of Modern War
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous