This book examines women's experiences in Britain during the Second World War, drawing on women's own memories and archival sources. It explores the myths and silences surrounding women's contribution to the war effort. Part of the text is devoted to women's experience of paid employment and how their sexuality became a contentious workplace issue. This theme is continued in the accounting for the sexuality of women on other spaces and places and how women re-negotiated their femininity, and thus their own 'war experiences'.

PHILOMENA GOODMAN has lectured in Women's Studies, Sociology and Politics in both further and higher education. From 1997-98 she was Coordinator of Gender Studies, Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. She has published an article in the journal Gender and History.