Essays analyze the two world wars in respect to gender politics and reassesses the differences between men and women in relation to war

Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.

The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women

The enfranchisement of women in Charles de Gaulle's France in 1944 is considered a potent element in the nation's self-crafted, triumphant World War Two narrati

This is the first comprehensive study in English of Soviet women who fought against the genocidal, misogynist, Nazi enemy on the Eastern Front during the Second