Gender and war, 1992-1996

 
Component identifier:
Series 10
Content Summary:

Gender and war: Australians at war in the twentieth century was edited by Lake and Joy Damousi of Melbourne University and published by the Cambridge University Press in 1995. The volume contained 18 essays on such subjects as the Anzac mythology, women in the anti-conscription movement in 1916-1917, the crisis of masculinity in World War I, gay men and lesbians in military service, and race and gender in the World Wars and the Vietnam War. Lake's own essay was entitled 'Female desires: the meaning of World War II'.

Correspondents include Joy Damousi, Phillipa McGuinness, Kay Saunders and Garry Wotherspoon.

Immediate source of acquisition:
The papers were purchased by the Library from Professor Marilyn Lake in two instalments, one in 1999 and one in 2004.

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