Log in

Relevant bibliographies by topics / World War, 1939-1945 Women Australia

Academic literature on the topic 'World War, 1939-1945 Women Australia'

Author: Grafiati

Published: 10 December 2022

Last updated: 29 January 2023

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles

Select a source type:

Contents

Journal articles
Dissertations / Theses
Books
Book chapters

Consult the lists of relevant articles, books, theses, conference reports, and other scholarly sources on the topic 'World War, 1939-1945 Women Australia.'

Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.

You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.

Journal articles on the topic "World War, 1939-1945 Women Australia"

1

Harris, Rachel. "“Armed with Glamour and Collection Tins”: Femininity and Voluntary Work in Wartime South Australia, 1939–45." Labour History: Volume 117, Issue 1 117, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 109–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlh.2019.20.

Full text

Abstract:

Between 1939 and 1945, more than 500 voluntary organisations operated across South Australia, the largest with a membership of more than 30,000 women. Focusing on the voluntary activities of these South Australian women – which ranged from providing material comforts for servicemen to fundraising as participants in beauty and pin-up competitions – this article reveals that female voluntarism was a highly visible and ubiquitous part of the home front experience in Australia during World War II. Oral histories, press reports and archival sources show that female voluntary work was considered crucial to the upkeep of male morale, and thus functioned to ease concerns regarding the war’s impact on traditional gender relations. In practice, however, the close relationship between paid and unpaid work meant voluntarism did not necessarily limit the wartime gains of South Australian women. Instead the rhetoric used to describe women’s voluntary work obscured the social and economic benefits it often provided.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Zvegintseva, Irina Anatolyevna. "World War II in the Cinema of Green Continent." Journal of Flm Arts and Film Studies 7, no. 2 (June 15, 2015): 106–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/vgik72106-114.

Full text

Abstract:

Despite its remote location from the major theatre of operations, Australia participated in the war siding with the Anti-German Coalition from the outbreak of World War II up to its end. Naturally, this impacted upon economic, social and cultural life of the country. The war was broadly covered by the Australian filmmakers and took a significant place in Australian cinema. For Australia World War II began on September 3rd, 1939. A million of Australian men and women fought against Germany in 19391945. Talking of the war theme in the Australian cinema, one should firstly pay tribute to the memory of dozens of Australian cameramen sent to the World War front alongside with soldiers, who covered the events in the newsreels. As for feature filmmakers, they were not able to cover the war due to poor production funding. Only after resuscitation of the national filmmaking in 1970s Australian filmmakers got an opportunity of shooting a number of interesting films dedicated to the events that had taken place seventy years ago. The theme of World War II was covered in many films. A lot of the best national filmmakers paid tribute to it, ranging from Brendan Mahers Sisters of War (2010) with its unprecedented harsh and truthful depiction of the role of Australian women in the war, to Jonathan Teplitzkys The Railway Man (2013), based on the bestselling autobiography of Eric Lomax (co-produced with Great Britain). The relevance of this article and its innovative contribution comes down to proof, that, although the number of films dedicated to World War II is relatively limited, their quality is extremely high and noteworthy. Its also noteworthy, that Australian filmmakers have brought back in the viewers minds the heroism of their fathers and forefathers, thus paying tribute to the memory of those who saved the world from Nazism seventy years ago.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Goodall, Heather. "Tracing Southern Cosmopolitanisms: the intersecting networks of Islam, Trade Unions, Gender and Communism, 1945-1965." Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal 3, no. 3 (November 29, 2011): 108–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/ccs.v3i3.2296.

Full text

Abstract:

At the end of World War 2, there were high hopes across the Indian Ocean for a new world in which the relationships between working people would mean more than the borders which separated them. This paper will explore the fate of the hopes for new worlds, in the decades after 1945, by following the uneven relationships among working class Australians, Indonesians and Indians in the aftermath of an intense political struggle in Australia from 1945 to 1949 in support of Indonesian independence. They had been brought together by intersections between the networks established through colonialism, like trade unions, communism and feminism, with those having much longer histories, like Islam. The men and women in this Australian setting expressed their vision in 1945 for a future of universal and transnational networks across the Indian Ocean which would continue the alliances they had found so fruitful. Today their experiences as well as their hopes might be called cosmopolitanism – they expected that the person-to-person friendships they were forming could be sustained and be able to negotiate the differences between them to achieve common aims. Although these hopes for new futures of universal alliances and collaborations were held passionately in the 1940s, all seem to have died by 1970, diverted by newly independent national trajectories and defeated by the Cold War. Yet many of the relationships persisted far longer than might be expected and their unravelling was not inevitable. This paper will trace the course of a few of the relationships which began in the heat of the campaigns in Australia, 1943 to 1945, in order to identify the continuing common ground as well as the rising tensions which challenged them.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Graham, Alister, Katherine Kenyon, Lochlan Bull, Visura Lokuge Don, and Kazuki Kuhlmann. "History of Astronomy in Australia: Big-Impact Astronomy from World War II until the Lunar Landing (1945–1969)." Galaxies 9, no. 2 (March 31, 2021): 24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/galaxies9020024.

Full text

Abstract:

Radio astronomy commenced in earnest after World War II, with Australia keenly engaged through the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. At this juncture, Australia’s Commonwealth Solar Observatory expanded its portfolio from primarily studying solar phenomena to conducting stellar and extragalactic research. Subsequently, in the 1950s and 1960s, astronomy gradually became taught and researched in Australian universities. However, most scientific publications from this era of growth and discovery have no country of affiliation in their header information, making it hard to find the Australian astronomy articles from this period. In 2014, we used the then-new Astrophysics Data System (ADS) tool Bumblebee to overcome this challenge and track down the Australian-led astronomy papers published during the quarter of a century after World War II, from 1945 until the lunar landing in 1969. This required knowledge of the research centres and facilities operating at the time, which are briefly summarised herein. Based on citation counts—an objective, universally-used measure of scientific impact—we report on the Australian astronomy articles which had the biggest impact. We have identified the top-ten most-cited papers, and thus also their area of research, from five consecutive time-intervals across that blossoming quarter-century of astronomy. Moreover, we have invested a substantial amount of time researching and providing a small tribute to each of the 62 scientists involved, including several trail-blazing women. Furthermore, we provide an extensive list of references and point out many interesting historical connections and anecdotes.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Tsokhas, Kosmas. "Dedominionization: the Anglo-Australian experience, 1939–1945." Historical Journal 37, no. 4 (December 1994): 861–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x00015120.

Full text

Abstract:

ABSTRACTThe role of decolonization in the decline of the British empire has received a great deal of attention. In comparison there has been little research or analysis of the process of dedominionization affecting Australia and the other dominions. During the Second World War economic ties were seriously weakened and there were substantial conflicts over economic policy between the British and Australian governments. Australia refused to reduce imports in order to conserve foreign exchange, thus contributing to the United Kingdom's debt burden. The Australian government insisted that the British guarantee Australia's sterling balances and refused to adopt the stringent fiscal policies requested by the Bank of England and the British treasury. Australia also took the opportunity to expand domestic manufacturing industry at the expense of British manufacturers. Economic separation and conflict were complemented by political and strategic differences. In particular, the Australian government realized that British military priorities made it impossible for the United Kingdom to defend Australia. This led the Australians towards a policy of cooperating with the British embargo on Japan, only to the extent that this would be unlikely to provoke Japanese military retaliation. In general, the Australians preferred a policy of compromise in the Far East to one of deterrence preferred by the British.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Gartshore, Heather. "Called to Serve, Shunned as Citizens: How the Australian Women’s Land Army Was Recruited and Abandoned by the Labor Government." Labour History: Volume 117, Issue 1 117, no. 1 (November 1, 2019): 135–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/jlh.2019.21.

Full text

Abstract:

The establishment and contribution of the Australian Women’s Land Army (AWLA) during World War II was welcomed by farmers. At that time prime ministers and premiers, along with a range of politicians, labelled their work as a vital war service, applauding their efforts as enabling Australia’s victory. However, in 1945, and following the war, key political leaders turned their back on this appreciation, denying the AWLA access to post-war benefits and services. This paper documents the reasons for the work of the AWLA from 1942 to 1945 and traces how the Labor Government in 1945 dismissed their contribution. It argues that to a large extent, this responsibility for denying the women the recognition and benefits that had been promised was a betrayal of the women they had called in to service.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

OLLERENSHAW, PHILIP. "War, Industrial Mobilisation and Society in Northern Ireland, 1939–1945." Contemporary European History 16, no. 2 (May 2007): 169–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777307003773.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractArchive-based regional studies can contribute much that is new to the economic, political and social history of the Second World War. This paper considers the process of industrial mobilisation in Northern Ireland, a politically divided region which was part of the United Kingdom but which had its own government. It examines the changing administrative framework of war production, the debate on military and industrial conscription, the role of women and the economic implications of geographical remoteness from London. The paper adds to our limited knowledge of regional mobilisation and contributes to a neglected aspect of the history of Northern Ireland.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

McKay, Belinda. "‘The One Jarring Note’: Race and Gender in Queensland Women's Writing to 1939." Queensland Review 8, no. 1 (May 2001): 31–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s132181660000235x.

Full text

Abstract:

The literary production of women in Queensland from Separation to World War II records and reflects on various aspects of colonial life and Australian nationhood in a period when white women's participation in public life and letters was steadily increasing. Unease with the colonial experience underpins many of the key themes of this body of work: the difficulty of finding a literary voice in a new land, a conflicted sense ofplace, the linking of masculinity with violence, and the promotion of racial purity. This chapter will explore how white women writers – for there were no published Indigenous women writers in this era – responded to the conditions of living and writing in Queensland prior to the social and cultural changes initiated by World War II.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Mildenberger, Florian Georg. "Yorick Smaal: Sex, Soldiers and the South Pacific, 1939–1945: Queer Identities in Australia in the Second World War." Sexuality & Culture 20, no. 3 (April 21, 2016): 772–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12119-016-9354-1.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Harrison, Rebecca. "The Coming of the Projectionettes." Feminist Media Histories 2, no. 2 (2016): 47–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2016.2.2.47.

Full text

Abstract:

This article investigates women's roles as cinema projectionists, and transformations in women's spectatorship, in Britain during World War II. Between 1939 and 1945 the British Cinematograph Exhibitors' Association (CEA), among other organizations, encouraged women to train as projectionists when the government conscripted men into the armed forces. The “projectionettes” experienced unequal pay, often chaotic training programs, and patronizingly sexualized portrayals in contemporary press reports. Yet without women projectionists, British cinemas would not have been able to operate during the war. This essay traces their histories and daily working lives through archival materials and the trade press. Moreover, by situating their work in a broader narrative about gendered spectatorship, the article proposes that owing to changing labor conditions, women gained new perspectives through their experiences in the movie theater. Investigating women projectionists is a valuable strategy in a broader reexamination of British film exhibition, points of view, and the proliferation of “women's cinema” during wartime.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

More sources

Dissertations / Theses on the topic "World War, 1939-1945 Women Australia"

1

Webb, Rosemary Ferguson. "Australian girl readers, femininities and feminism in the Second World War (1939-1945) a study of subjectivity and agency /." Access electronically, 2004. http://www.library.uow.edu.au/adt-NWU/public/adt-NWU20050706.111946/index.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Kato, Megumi Humanities &amp Social Sciences Australian Defence Force Academy UNSW. "Representations of Japan and Japanese people in Australian literature." Awarded by:University of New South Wales - Australian Defence Force Academy. School of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/38718.

Full text

Abstract:

This thesis is a broadly chronological study of representations of Japan and the Japanese in Australian novels, stories and memoirs from the late nineteenth century to the twenty-first century. Adopting Edward Said???s Orientalist notion of the `Other???, it attempts to elaborate patterns in which Australian authors describe and evaluate the Japanese. As well as examining these patterns of representation, this thesis outlines the course of their development and change over the years, how they relate to the context in which they occur, and how they contribute to the formation of wider Australian views on Japan and the Japanese. The thesis considers the role of certain Australian authors in formulating images and ideas of the Japanese ???Other???. These authors, ranging from fiction writers to journalists, scholars and war memoirists, act as observers, interpreters, translators, and sometimes ???traitors??? in their cross-cultural interactions. The thesis includes work from within and outside ???mainstream??? writings, thus expanding the contexts of Australian literary history. The major ???periods??? of Australian literature discussed in this thesis include: the 1880s to World War II; the Pacific War; the post-war period; and the multicultural period (1980s to 2000). While a comprehensive examination of available literature reveals the powerful and continuing influence of the Pacific War, images of ???the stranger???, ???the enemy??? and later ???the ally??? or ???partner??? are shown to vary according to authors, situations and wider international relations. This thesis also examines gender issues, which are often brought into sharp relief in cross-cultural representations. While typical East-West power-relationships are reflected in gender relations, more complex approaches are also taken by some authors. This thesis argues that, while certain patterns recur, such as versions of the ???Cho-Cho-San??? or ???Madame Butterfly??? story, Japan-related works have given some Australian authors, especially women, opportunities to reveal more ???liberated??? viewpoints than seemed possible in their own cultural context. As the first extensive study of Japan in Australian literary consciousness, this thesis brings to the surface many neglected texts. It shows a pattern of changing interests and interactions between two nations whose economic interactions have usually been explored more deeply than their literary and cultural relations.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Nagata, Yuriko. "Japanese internment in Australia during World War II /." Title page, contents and summary only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09phn147.pdf.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Paton-Walsh, Margaret. "Our war too : American women against the Axis /." Lawrence, Kan : University Press of Kansas, 2002. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy032/2002002976.html.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Ryan, Kathleen M. ""When flags flew high" : propaganda, memory, and oral history for World War II female veterans /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank) Connect to title online (ProQuest), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/8332.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oregon, 2008.
Typescript. Includes vita and abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 377-400). Also available online in Scholars' Bank; and in ProQuest, free to University of Oregon users.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Palmer, Glen. "Reluctant refuge : unaccompanied refugee and evacuee children in Australia, 1933-45 /." Title page, contents and abstract only, 1995. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php1738.pdf.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Kirkland, Melanie Anne Veach. "Daughters of Athena American women in the military during World War II /." Fort Worth, Tex. : Texas Christian University, 2009. http://etd.tcu.edu/etdfiles/available/etd-04292009-155533/unrestricted/Kirkland.pdf.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Sposto, Caroline Zarlengo. "A woman's place a video documentary on mass media messages directed towards women between 1940 - 1950 /." Instructions for remote access. Click here to access this electronic resource. Access available to Kutztown University faculty, staff, and students only, 2005. http://www.kutztown.edu/library/services/remote_access.asp.

Full text

Abstract:

Thesis (M.S. )--Kutztown University of Pennsylvania, 2005.
Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 2721. Typescript. Accompanying DVD entitled: A Woman's Place: a documentary to supplement masters thesis. Abstract precedes thesis as 2 leaves (i-ii). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 59-61).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Yoshioka, Aiko. "Analysing representations of the comfort women issue : gender, race, nation and subjectivities /." Title page, table of contents and preface only, 1997. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09ARM/09army65.pdf.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Jennings, Jeffrey Allen. "Engine Oil and Eyeliner: Femininity and Motherhood in the Women Airforce Service Pilots During World War II." Connect to resource, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=osu1209579299.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

More sources

Books on the topic "World War, 1939-1945 Women Australia"

1

Scates, Bruce. Women and the Great War. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Rae, Frances, ed. Women and the Great War. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Reeson, Margaret. A very long war: The families who waited. Carlton South, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 2000.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Tucker, Eileen Reilly. We answered the call: AWAS of Western Australia and their mates : celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of admission of women into the Australian military forces. Cloverdale, WA: Eileen (Reilly) Tucker, 1991.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Thomson, Joyce A. The WAAAF in wartime Australia. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press, 1991.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

1930-, Sandford Beryl, ed. The girls they left behind. Rignwood, Victoria, Australia: Penguin Books, 1990.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Heroic Australian women in war: Astonishing tales of bravery from Galliopoli to Kokoda. Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins, 2004.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Farrer, Vashti. When the war came. Aspley, Q: ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee (Queensland) Incorporated, 2012.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Elizabeth, Osborne. Torres Strait Islander women and the Pacific War. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1997.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Bradfield, Catherine. One-way ticket. Sydney: Hale & Iremonger, in association with Ron Winch Books, 1992.

Find full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

More sources

Book chapters on the topic "World War, 1939-1945 Women Australia"

1

Bruley, Sue. "‘We Can Do It!’: The Second World War 1939–1945." In Women in Britain since 1900, 92–116. London: Macmillan Education UK, 1999. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-27743-8_5.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Goss, W. M., Claire Hooker, and Ronald D. Ekers. "Pawsey’s Role in Australian Radar Research in World War II, 1939–1945." In Historical & Cultural Astronomy, 111–37. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07916-0_9.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractJoe Pawsey played a critically important role in the development of radar in Australia. His leadership contributed to the success of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, Division of Radiophysics—RPL—in 1939–1945. More than anyone else at RPL, he exemplified, and cultivated in the scientific staff, the combination of practical, engineering expertise and know-how, with a thorough understanding of the physical principles of the radar equipment that underpinned the Australian achievements across the war years. His ability to navigate personalities and social systems constructively was equally critical to RPL’s successes.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Lynch, Gordon. "Flawed Progress: Criticisms of Residential Institutions for Child Migrants in Australia and Policy Responses, 1939–1945." In UK Child Migration to Australia, 1945-1970, 55–90. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69728-0_3.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractThe positive view of child migration held by UK Government officials in the inter-war period was not based on any regular system of inspections of the institutions in Australia to which children were sent. During the Second World War, UK Government officials became more of reported problems at several of these institutions, relating to standards of accommodation, management, care, training and after-care. This chapter traces the growing awareness of these problems and the UK Government’s response to them. Whilst policy-makers’ positive assumptions about child migration were challenged, and specific issues and institutions were known to require significant improvement, overall confidence in the value of child migration remained. Despite evidence of organisational failings in Australia, Australian welfare professionals were trusted to address these problems, and suggestions about the need for greater control from the United Kingdom were seen as a backward-looking attempt to limit the autonomy of Britain’s Dominions.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Banham, Tony. "Conclusion." In Reduced to a Symbolical Scale. Hong Kong University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5790/hongkong/9789888390878.003.0008.

Full text

Abstract:

So we decided to emigrate to Australia and I suppose we could now be called ‘Dinkum Aussies’ – after 30 years.¹ By 1946 Hong Kong’s pre-war colonial society, which had celebrated its hundredth birthday just five years earlier, had gone forever. Hong Kong, to the British people who lived there between the twentieth century’s two great wars, had been perhaps the prime real estate to be had in the empire. Life there was entertaining and cheap, profits were bountiful. But then came the threat of war. Mindful of their own situation in 1939, the British government instructed the Hong Kong government to mandate evacuation of British women and children should the colony be threatened by attack. In mid-1940, as the Battle of Britain stamped an indelible, greasy smoke stain through British skies thousands of miles away, the majority of Hong Kong’s civilians prescriptively escaped the threat of Asian war. Those families split asunder would often—in the context of the more than 200 husbands killed, and the many divorces—never be reunited; the cost of war being measured in permanently broken homes. That evacuation, in stages from Hong Kong to the Philippines, from the Philippines to Australia, and from Australia to the UK, or back to Hong Kong, and—in many cases—back to Australia again, would define many lives. Looking at Australia’s population today, a surprisingly large number can—at least in part—track their heritage back to Hong Kong’s pre-war society: the garrison, the businessmen, earlier evacuees who had washed up in the colony, and local families. From the perspective of Australia’s twenty-first century population, the effects of Hong Kong’s evacuation still reverberate through tens of thousands of its people. Many of the ancestors of those Australians are buried in Hong Kong or—for those who died as prisoners of war—in Japan, or they lie lost and forgotten, skeletons in Hong Kong’s remotest ravines or at the bottom of the South China Sea....

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Weinberg, Gerard L. "2. World War II begins." In World War II: A Very Short Introduction, 20–32. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199688777.003.0003.

Full text

Abstract:

The German attack on Poland began on September 1 1939, and triggered the declaration of war on Germany by Britain, France, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the Union of South Africa. Germany and the Soviet Union were agreed on a dual attack on Poland from the West and East, which left Poland unable to defend itself. An important aspect of the war between Germany and the Allies was the war of the oceans. The battles between warships, targets on merchant ships, and the use of submarines in the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans continued from 1939 up until Germany's surrender in May 1945 and drew in many Baltic and Scandinavian countries.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

Chetty, Suryakanthie. "‘This Great Adventure’: White Women in the Union Defence Force, 1939–1945." In Sights, Sounds, Memories: South African Soldier Experiences of the Second World War, 236–60. African Sun Media, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.18820/9781928480914/08.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Byers, Daniel. "Canada and the Mobilization of Manpower during the Second World War." In Manpower and the Armies of the British Empire in the Two World Wars, 160–73. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501755835.003.0012.

Full text

Abstract:

This chapter recounts Canada's efforts to raise armed forces between 1939 and 1945, which have been shaped by the memory of political and social differences between English- and French-speaking Canadians over whether the federal government should compel men to serve outside their country in times of war. It mentions the imposition of the conscription that led to a divisive wartime election and major cleavages between the two linguistic groups. It also details how the Canadian Army, Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) ultimately expanded in sizes after 1939. The chapter explains how the expansion of Canada's army played a role in the country's contribution to the global population during and after the conflict. It explains why civilian bureaucracy that mobilized men and women for the armed forces and other tasks did not constitute the comprehensive, forward-thinking blueprint for managing Canada's manpower resources.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Brown, Jeannette E. "Chemists Who Work in Academia." In African American Women Chemists in the Modern Era. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190615178.003.0007.

Full text

Abstract:

Etta Gravely (Fig. 3.1) is a retired professor of chemistry and former head of the Department of Chemistry at North Carolina A&T State University at Greensboro (North Carolina A&T). Etta was born on August 30, 1939, in Alamance County, NC. Now the town of Green Level, it was then a rural community near Burlington. Most of the people there farmed, raising tobacco. Everyone had private gardens and Etta’s grandmother canned their food. The area where she went to school is still very rural; the school building is now the town hall. Etta’s mother was Kate Lee McBroom and her father Rufus Leith. Her mother, a homemaker, did general house cleaning for families. Her father had a high school degree, had served in the army during World War II, and worked as an orderly in a hospital. Etta is the only child of her mother, but her father had a son named Frederick Leith. Her brother went to Graham Central high school and upon graduation went into the army and subsequently died. Etta did not go to kindergarten because there was none. She started school in the first grade in a four-room school that had classes for grades one and two, three and four, five and six, and seven and eight. The principal was Mrs. Mary Holne, and there were three other teachers, each teaching two grades. Since Etta loved to read and liked to do school work, she skipped fourth grade and went on to fifth grade: fourth and third grade were taught in the same room, and when she completed her third- grade work she would do fourth-grade work. Her teachers probably had bachelor’s or master’s degrees in their subjects. Both Etta’s school and community were segregated; she went to school in 1945, before the Brown vs. Board of Education act, which was Supreme Court decision. When Etta graduated from the country school, she was bused to Pleasant Grove High School—for African American students, five miles from the high school for white students. The school taught grades one through twelve; the curriculum was the usual reading, writing, and arithmetic.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

We offer discounts on all premium plans for authors whose works are included in thematic literature selections. Contact us to get a unique promo code!