Women’s Experiences of the Second World War (Web PDF) von Mark J. Crowley

Using a very wide range of detailed sources, the book surveys the many different experiences of women during the Second World War.

Introduction: Women's Experiences of the Second World War: Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life - Mark J. Crowley
Introduction: Women's Experiences of the Second World War: Exile, Occupation and Everyday Life - Sandra Trudgen Dawson
Part One: Living in Exile and under Wartime Occupation
Exiles Serving Exiles on the Homefront: Protestant Missionary Workers and Japanese Americans - Beth Hessel
Memories of Exile: An Alsatian Woman in German Occupied Alsace, 1939-1945 - Nupur Chaudhuri
Entertaining Exile: Norah O'Hagan and the Flying Herzogs at War, 1939-1945
The War Diaries of Hélène Berr and Etty Hillesum: Jewish Women in Occupied Paris and Amsterdam, 1941-1944 - Sylvie Crinquand
Part Two: Living with Wartime Occupiers
A Friendly Invasion? Maori Women, American Servicemen and the Legacies of Wartime Mobilisation in New Zealand
Interracial Marriage in Occupied Japan
A Moment of Refuge: Transnational Cooperation at Ming Sum School for the Blind in Occupied Canton in the Second World War
Contradictions and Conformity in a Wartime Boarding House: Gender Roles and British Food Rationing in the Second World War
Part Three: Everyday Life at Home and on the Battle Front
"We Had All Tried to Act like Ladies, but We Weren't Getting Anywhere." :The Bring Back Daddy Clubs and the Demobilization of 1945
Womanhood under Fire: Gender Practice and Identity in Soviet Accounts of the Frontlines
"This Is a Woman's War, Too": Canadian Servicewomen's Wartime Scrapbooks
US Military Nurses and the Liberation of Concentration Camps in the Second World War