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Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War

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Editors:
  1. Linsey Robb

    1. Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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  2. Juliette Pattinson

    1. University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

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  • Assesses male identities, roles and representations during the Second World War
  • Brings together cutting-edge research examining both military and civilian experiences of wartime
  • Provides an overview of recent research in the subject area of masculinities and warfare
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Genders and Sexualities in History (GSX)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. Becoming Visible: Gendering the Study of Men at War

    • Linsey Robb, Juliette Pattinson
    Pages 1-22

  3. Erratum to: Fantasies of the ‘Soldier Hero’, Frustrations of the Jedburghs

    • Juliette Pattinson
    Pages E1-E1

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 215-218
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About this book

This edited collection brings together cutting-edge research on British masculinities and male culture, considering the myriad ways British men experienced, understood and remembered their exploits during the Second World War, as active combatants, prisoners and as civilian workers. It examines male identities, roles and representations in the armed forces, with particular focus on the RAF, army, volunteers for dangerous duties and prisoners of war, and on the home front, with case studies of reserved occupations and Bletchley Park, and examines the ways such roles have been remembered in post-war years in memoirs, film and memorials. As such this analysis of previously underexplored male experiences makes a major contribution to the historiography of Britain in the Second World War, as well as to socio-cultural history, cultural studies and gender studies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Northumbria University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

    Linsey Robb

  • University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom

    Juliette Pattinson

About the editors

Linsey Robb is Lecturer in History at Northumbria University, UK, and is a social and cultural historian specialising in the study of gender in the Second World War. Key publications include Men at Work (Palgrave, 2015), and Men in Reserve (2017), co-authored with Juliette Pattinson and Arthur McIvor. She is currently researching British conscientious objection during the Second World War.


Juliette Pattinson is Reader at the University of Kent, UK, and a gender historian specialising in the Second World War. Key publications include Behind Enemy Lines (2007), Men in Reserve (2017)  and three co-edited collections: Fighting for Britain? (2015), British Cultural Memory and the Second World War (2014) and War in a Twilight World (2010).


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War

  • Editors: Linsey Robb, Juliette Pattinson

  • Series Title: Genders and Sexualities in History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95290-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Macmillan Publishers Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95289-2Published: 17 November 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95787-3Published: 23 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-95290-8Published: 04 November 2017

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9479

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9487

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 218

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: History of World War II and the Holocaust, Social History, History of Military, Cultural History, Gender Studies

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