Men in Reserve: British Civilian Masculinities in the Second World War

by Linsey Robb, Arthur McIvor, Juliette Pattinson, et al.

Men in reserve focuses on working class civilian men who, as a result of working in reserved occupations, were exempt from enlistment in the armed forces. It uses fifty six newly conducted oral history interviews as well as autobiographies, visual sources and existing archived interviews to explore how this group articulated their wartime experiences and how they positioned themselves in relation to the hegemonic discourse of military masculinity...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152610069X
• ISBN13: 9781526100696
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"