Research Catalog

Title

Gender and war : Australians at war in the twentieth century / edited by Joy Damousi and Marilyn Lake.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

• Damousi, Joy.
• Lake, Marilyn.

Description

viii, 351 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

• War has been a key part of the Australian experience and central to many national mythologies. Yet more than most activities, war polarises femininity and masculinity. While there has been no shortage of military history, little has been written about Australia's military involvements from the perspective of gender. This exciting collection of essays explores for the first time the interrelationship of gender and war in Australia.
• Traditional images of Australians during wartime show the digger making history in battle while women play a supportive role as nurses or wives and mothers on the home front. Yet, as this book shows, war offers opportunities that erode gender boundaries. Women can be empowered economically, politically and sexually while the trauma of war can leave men emasculated.
• Gender and War focuses on women's and men's experiences in World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War. A team of leading writers addresses a range of subjects, including: female desire and sexuality in both world wars; women and the anti-conscription campaigns in World War I; gay men and lesbians in the military services; the crisis of masculinity during and after World War I and World War II and race and gender in World War I and Vietnam.

Series Statement

Studies in Australian history

Uniform Title

Studies in Australian history.

Subjects

• Women > Australia > History > 20th century
• World War, 1914-1918 > Australia
• Sex role
• Australia > History, Military
• World War, 1939-1945 > Australia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Warfare, history and gender / Marilyn Lake and Joy Damousi -- 1. Heroines and heroes: Sexual mythology in Australia 1914-18 / Carmel Shute -- 2. Day mothers and night sisters: World War I nurses and sexuality / Katie Holmes -- 3. Female desires: The meaning of World War II / Marilyn Lake -- 4. Lesbians and loose women: Female sexuality and the women's services during World War II / Ruth Ford -- 5. Consuming passions: Romance and consumerism during World War II / Lyn Finch -- 6. Remembering romance: Memory, gender and World War II / Kate Darian-Smith -- 7. A crisis of masculinity? Australian military manhood in the Great War / Alistair Thomson -- 8. The gendered battlefield: Sex and death in Gallipoli / Rose Lucas -- 9. The gendered figuring of the dysfunctional serviceman in the discourses of military psychiatry / Joseph Pugliese -- 10. In a cloud of lust: Black GIs and sex in World War II / Kay Saunders --
• 11. Return home: War, masculinity and repatriation / Stephen Garton -- 12. Comrades-in-arms: World War II and male homosexuality in Australia / Garry Wotherspoon -- 13. A bit of the other: Touring Vietnam / Robin Gerster -- 14. 'All the passion of our womanhood': Margaret Thorp and the Battle of the Brisbane School of Arts / Raymond Evans -- 15. Socialist women and gendered space: Anti-conscription and anti-war campaigns 1914-18 / Joy Damousi -- 16. Feminists, food and the fair price: The cost-of-living demonstrations in Melbourne, August-September 1917 / Judith Smart -- 17. Anzac mythology and the feminist challenge / Adrian Howe -- 18. 'Shut up, you bourgeois bitch': Sexual identity and political action in the anti-Vietnam War movement / Ann Curthoys.

ISBN

• 0521451000 (hardback)
• 0521457106 (pbk.)

LCCN

94040022

OCLC

• 31610296
• ocm31610296

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries