Women, Social Leadership, and the Second World War

Download or read book Women, Social Leadership, and the Second World War written by James Hinton and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002-11-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By mobilizing a million housewives, the upper- and middle-class leaders of Women's Voluntary Service made a vital contribution to Britain's war effort. At the same time they sought to sustain their own authority as social leaders. James Hinton's original and evocative study reconstructs an intimate portrait of a women's public world neglected by historians. It challenges accepted accounts of the democratizing impact of the Second World War. Among women the war reinforced, notdemocracy, but the continuities of class.