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.