Rebuilding "real men" : work and working class male civilian bodies in wartime
McIvor, Arthur; Robb, Linsey and Pattinson, Juliette, eds. (2017) Rebuilding "real men" : work and working class male civilian bodies in wartime. In: Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War. Palgrave, London, pp. 121-144. ISBN 9781349952908 (https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95290-8_6)
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Abstract
This chapter utilises newly conducted oral interviews as well as a range of other evidence, including archived interviews and published autobiographies, to explore how war impacted upon male civilian workers’ gender identities. Working men experienced subordination to the economic imperatives of war and degrees of emasculation associated with not being in uniform and feeling threatened by the wartime work roles of women. However, in wartime working men also found ways to express, validate and rebuild male identities after the ravages of the 1930s Depression. Moreover, masculinities were expressed through bodies and war impacted upon reserved workers’ corporeality in myriad ways. An array of evidence tells a more complex and contingent story of the agency of male workers on the home front.
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McIvor, Arthur ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8907-3182; Robb, Linsey and Pattinson, Juliette-
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Item type: Book Section ID code: 64206 Dates: DateEvent17 November 2017Published5 November 2017Published OnlineSubjects: History General and Old World > History (General) > World War II Department: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Humanities > History Depositing user: Pure Administrator Date deposited: 01 Jun 2018 14:05 Last modified: 01 Sep 2024 00:51 Related URLs: URI: https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/64206