Masculinities on Clydeside: Men in Reserved Occupations 1939-1945

Masculinities on Clydeside: Men in Reserved Occupations 1939-1945
ISBN-10
1474409377
ISBN-13
9781474409377
Category
History
Pages
216
Language
English
Published
2016-07-08
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Author
Chand Alison Chand

Description

Masculinities on Clydeside explores the experiences of civilian men on Clydeside during the war, using oral history interviews as a means to explore subjectivity and arguing for continuous personal agency through major historical changes. While men in reserved occupations are understood as extensively influenced by 'imagined' discourses, often resulting in feelings of guilt and emasculation, their subjectivities were nonetheless ultimately rooted in their 'lived' and immediate local vicinities, and the people and places of their everyday lives. This ultimate relevance of lived existence and the everyday also meant that while wartime relations between men and women were clearly shaped by a range of gender discourses and continually renegotiated, gender boundaries were never fixed or truly separate.The analysis looks at wider subjectivities, encompassing national and political identities, class consciousness, religious subjectivities and social activities, as well as examining women's experiences of working in reserved occupations in wartime and their interactions with civilian men.

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