Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War.

Intro -- Foreword -- Series Editors' Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Becoming Visible: Gendering the Study of Men at War -- Towards a Gendered Study of Men: Making Masculinities Visible -- Mapping Second World War Masculinities -- The Collection -- Part I The 'Soldier Hero' -- Chapter 2 Fantasies of the 'Soldier Hero', Frustrations of the Jedburghs -- 'Make Me a Soldier, Lord … Make Me a Man': Growing up in the Shadow of War -- 'Keen to Be in the Thick of the Action': Underage Volunteering for War Service -- 'A Man Fond of Risk and Adventure': Recruiting for Special Duties -- On Active Service: Special Duties Behind Enemy Lines -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3 'Man, Lunatic or Corpse': Fear, Wounding and Death in the British Army, 1939-45 -- Fear -- Wounding -- Death -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4 'Pinky Smith Looks Gorgeous!' Female Impersonators and Male Bonding in Prisoner of War Camps for British Servicemen in Europe -- 'The Unfortunate Synthetic Female Had to Be Taught to Walk "Toe to Heel"' -- 'When We Come Home We Shall Be Very Critical of How Women Play Feminine Parts' -- A 'Pleasurable and Haunting Experience for Hundreds of Men' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Becoming 'a Man' During the Battle of Britain: Combat, Masculinity and Rites of Passage in the Memoirs of 'the Few' -- 'Boy's-Eye View': The Schoolboy's Approach to War -- Growing 'a Little Older': Reviewing Battle as a Rite of Passage -- Conclusion -- Part II The Home Front Man -- Chapter 6 Rebuilding 'Real Men': Work and Working-Class Male Civilian Bodies in Wartime -- Subordinating the Body: The Imperatives of Wartime Production -- Reconstructing the Body: Rebuilding Masculinities in the Wartime Workplace -- Conclusion.

Chapter 7 'Bright Chaps for Hush-Hush Jobs': Masculinity, Class and Civilians in Uniform at Bletchley Park -- 'These Men Knew the Type Required': Masculinity and Espionage, 1909-39 -- 'Not being at the front was somehow dishonourable': Hegemonic Masculinity and Wartime Bletchley Park -- 'Galling to Regulars': Competing Masculinities -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8 'The Cushy Number': Civilian Men in British Post-war Representations of the Second World War -- The Frustrated Hero -- The Voluntary Civilian -- The Disappearing Civilian Man -- The Emasculated Civilian -- Conclusion -- Chapter 9 Commemorating Invisible Men: Reserved Occupations in Bronze and Stone -- The Civilian Male in Wartime -- Service and Death -- Hierarchies of Service -- Gender in War: Theory and Practice -- Erratum to: Fantasies of the 'Soldier Hero', Frustrations of the Jedburghs -- Erratum to: Chapter 2 in: L. Robb and J. Pattinson (eds.), Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War, Genders and Sexualities in History, &lt -- ExternalRef&gt -- &lt -- RefSource&gt -- https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95290-8_2&lt -- /RefSource&gt -- &lt -- RefTarget Address -- Index.

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