Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War

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Penny Summerfield Corinna Peniston-Bird (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History)

Contesting Home Defence

Men, Women and the Home Guard in the Second World War

Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History), Bertrand Taithe , Peter Gatrell

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Manchester University Press
31 March 2007

British & Irish history; Oral history; Second World War

Series: Cultural History of Modern War

Contesting home defence is a new history of the Home Guard, a novel national defence force of the Second World War composed of civilians who served as part-time soldiers: it questions accounts of the force and the war, which have seen them as symbols of national unity. It scrutinises the Home Guard's reputation and explores whether this 'people's army' was a site of social cohesion or of dissension by assessing the competing claims made for it at the time. It then examines the way it was represented during the war and has been since, notably in Dad's Army, and discusses the memories of men and women who served in it. The book makes a significant and original contribution to debates concerning the British home front and introduces fresh ways of understanding the Second World War. -- .

By: Penny Summerfield, Corinna Peniston-Bird (Senior Lecturer in Gender and Cultural History)
Series edited by: Bertrand Taithe, Peter Gatrell, Max Jones
Imprint: Manchester University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 526g
ISBN: 9780719062018
ISBN 10: 0719062012
Series: Cultural History of Modern War
Pages: 328
Publication Date: 31 March 2007
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of illustrations List of abbreviations Preface and acknowledgements 1. Introduction: contested histories PART ONE: POLITICAL CHALLENGES 2. The People’s Army: competing visions of the Home Guard 3. Women, weapons and home defence PART TWO: REPRESENTATIONS 4. The Home Guard in wartime popular culture 5. Representations of women and home defence 6. Dad's Army and Home Guard history PART THREE: PERSONAL TESTIMONY 7. Men’s memories of the Home Guard 8. Women, memory and home defence 9. Conclusion Appendix 1 Personal Testimony: Women Appendix 2 Personal Testimony: Men Bibliography -- .

Penny Summerfield is Professor of Modern History at the University of Manchester. Corinna Peniston-Bird is Lecturer in History at the University of Lancaster