Reconstructing Womens Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War - Paperback

by Penny Summerfield (Author)

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.

Front Jacket

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.

Author Biography

Penny Summerfield is Professor of Women's History at Manchester University