Men, Masculinities and Male Culture in the Second World War

Chapter 1 Becoming Visible: Gendering the Study of Men at War

Chapter 2 Fantasies of the ‘Soldier Hero’, Frustrations of the Jedburghs

Chapter 3 ‘Man, Lunatic or Corpse’: Fear, Wounding and Death in the British Army, 1939–45

Chapter 4 ‘Pinky Smith Looks Gorgeous!’ Female Impersonators and Male Bonding in Prisoner of War Camps for British Servicemen in Europe

Chapter 5 Becoming ‘a Man’ During the Battle of Britain: Combat, Masculinity and Rites of Passage in the Memoirs of ‘the Few’

Chapter 6 Rebuilding ‘Real Men’: Work and Working-Class Male Civilian Bodies in Wartime

Chapter 7 ‘Bright Chaps for Hush-Hush Jobs’: Masculinity, Class and Civilians in Uniform at Bletchley Park

Chapter 8 ‘The Cushy Number’: Civilian Men in British Post-war Representations of the Second World War

Chapter 10 Erratum to: Fantasies of the ‘Soldier Hero’, Frustrations of the Jedburghs