In this collection of essays, contributors explore the construction of women as homemakers and the erasure of household labor from the middle-class home in popular representations of housework. They concentrate on such matters as the impact of second-wave feminism on families and gender relations: of popular culture—especially in film, television, magazines, and advertising—on our views of what constitutes home life and gender relations: and of changing views of sexuality and masculinity within the domestic sphere.
This book offers an overview of the relationship between gender and war, exploring the conduct of war, its impact, aftermath, and opposition to it. Offering theoretical insights and empirical research from the First World War to contemporary conflicts around the world, the book underscores the centrality of gender to critical examinations of war.