G. H. Bennett
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Women and the battle of the Atlantic 1939-45
Contemporary texts, propaganda, and life writing
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This chapter demonstrates the extent of women's involvement in a theatre of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic, which in the popular memory is an entirely masculine affair. As victims of the Battle of the Atlantic, women had a particularly high value in the propaganda war. The chapter shows the diversity of contemporary and life-writing texts produced for women, about women and by women in relation to their involvement in this particular theatre. The ENIGMA texts are usually marked by a continuing discretion and deference to the male on gender issues. The chapter also shows how concerns about national morale, a willingness to utilise existing stereotypes about gender, led to the production of strikingly similar narratives to explain the involvement of women in the war at sea.

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