Hey! I am very new to this so please do bare with me. I am working on a paper on women in in the military during world war 2 on themes related to the subsequent understanding of nationality that was attached to them (eg women were either seen as mothers protecting the land, or as mothers that gave birth to a pure race and so on), class standing of these women who joined these armies, and on the idea of feminity within these armies. Thought I am at a very initial stage, and i need to fine tune my idea and the general structure, I would really love some advice/pointers/help on things I should look into/ other historically relevant things that are relevant but ignored.
I am also planning on doing it by looking into case studies of the RoJ and Women German army and so on.
A few works that would be worth looking into for their coverage of gender and World War II:
Nancy M. Wingfield & Maria Bucur. Gender and War in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe. Indiana University Press, 2005.
Dagmar Herzog. Brutality and Desire: War and Sexuality in Europe's Twentieth Century. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
Karen Hagemann & Stefanie Schüler-Springorum. Home/Front: The Military, War and Gender in Twentieth-Century Germany. Berg, 2002.
Nicole Ann Dombrowski. Women and War in the Twentieth Century: Enlisted With or Without Consent. Garland Reference Library, 2017.
Corinna Peniston-Bird & Emma Vickers. Gender and the Second World War: The Lessons of War. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Antje Ascheid. Hitler's Heroines: Stardom & Womanhood in Nazi Cinema. Temple University Press, 2010.
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