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Scottish Studies
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- ISBN 9781474409360
- Weight: 413g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 19 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Masculinities on Clydeside explores the experiences of civilian men on Clydeside during the war, using oral history interviews as a means to explore subjectivity and arguing for continuous personal agency through major historical changes. While men in reserved occupations are understood as extensively influenced by ‘imagined’ discourses, often resulting in feelings of guilt and emasculation, their subjectivities were nonetheless ultimately rooted in their ‘lived’ and immediate local vicinities, and the people and places of their everyday lives. This ultimate relevance of lived existence and the everyday also meant that while wartime relations between men and women were clearly shaped by a range of gender discourses and continually renegotiated, gender boundaries were never fixed or truly separate.
The analysis looks at wider subjectivities, encompassing national and political identities, class consciousness, religious subjectivities and social activities, as well as examining women’s experiences of working in reserved occupations in wartime and their interactions with civilian men.
Alison Chand is a freelance historian and tutor at the University of Strathclyde. Her specialist areas include the Second World War in Britain and oral history – she engages in freelance oral history interviewing, transcribing and summarising and also works as a trainer at the Scottish Oral History Centre at the University of Strathclyde.
