Second World War Books

New and Published Books

1. Women Workers in the Second World War

   Production and Patriarchy in Conflict

   By Penny Summerfield

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   The Second World War is often seen as a period of emancipation, because of the influx of women into paid work, and because the state took steps to relieve women of domestic work. This study challenges such a picture. The state approached the removal of women from the domestic sphere with extreme...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
2. Out of the Cage

   Women's Experiences in Two World Wars

   By Gail Braybon, Penny Summerfield

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   Originally published in 1987, Out of the Cage brings vividly to life the experiences of working women from all social groups in the two World Wars. Telling a fascinating story, the authors emphasise what the women themselves have had to say, in diaries, memoirs, letters and recorded interviews...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
3. Women in Nazi Society

   By Jill Stephenson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   This fascinating book examines the position of women under the Nazis. The National Socialist movement was essentially male-dominated, with a fixed conception of the role women should play in society; while man was the warrior and breadwinner, woman was to be the homemaker and childbearer. The Nazi...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
4. The Nazi Organisation of Women

   By Jill Stephenson

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   The Nazi’s were implacably opposed to feminism and women’s independence. Rosa Luxemburg became a symbol of all that most horrified them in German society, in particular because of her involvement in active politics. Nazi ideology saw women in the activist role of 'wives, mothers and home-makers',...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge
5. Mothers in the Fatherland

   Women, the Family and Nazi Politics

   By Claudia Koonz

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Women's History

   From extensive research, including a remarkable interview with the unrepentant chief of Hitler’s Women’s Bureau, this book traces the roles played by women – as followers, victims and resisters – in the rise of Nazism. Originally publishing in 1987, it is an important contribution to the...

   Published October 9th 2012 by Routledge