Table of Contents

Introduction: warfare, history and gender Marilyn Lake and Joy Damousi; Part I. Femininities: 1. Heroines and heroes: sexual mythology in Australia 1914–1918 Carmel Shute; 2. Day mothers and night sisters: World War I nurses and sexuality Katie Holmes; 3. Female desires: the meaning of World War II Marilyn Lake; 4. Lesbians and loose women: female sexuality and the women's services during World War II Ruth Ford; 5. Consuming passions: romance and consumerism during World War II Lyn Finch; 6. Remembering romance: memory, gender and World War II Kate Darian-Smith; Part II. Masculinities: 7. A crisis of masculinity? Australian military manhood in the Great War Alistair Thomson; 8. The gendered battlefield: sex and death in Gallipoli Rose Lucas; 9. The gendered figuring of the dysfunctional serviceman in the discourses of military psychiatry Joseph Pugliese; 10. In a cloud of lust: black GIs and sex in World War II Kay Saunders; 11. Return home: war, masculinity and repatriation Stephen Garton; 12. Comrades-in-arms: World War II and male homosexuality in Australia Garry Wotherspoon; 13. A bit of the other: touring Vietnam Robin Gerster; Part III. Mobilisations: 14. 'All the passion of our womanhood': Margaret Thorp and the Battle of the Brisbane School of Arts Raymond Evans; 15. Socialist women and gendered space: anti-conscription and anti-war campaigns 1914–1918 Joy Damousi; 17. Feminists, food and the fair price: the cost-of-living demonstrations in Melbourne, August–September 1917 Judith Smart; 18. 'Shut up, you bourgeois bitch': sexual identity and political action in the anti-Vietnam war movement Ann Curthoys; Contributors; Index.

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This exciting 1995 collection of essays explores the inter-relationship of gender and war in Australia.