The forgotten 'mateys': Women workers in Portsmouth Dockyard, England, 1939-45

Women's History Review

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 361-382

  Day, Ann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247413323     PISSN: 09612025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09612029800200174     Document Type: Review

References (39)

1. Arthur Marwick (1988) Total War and Social Change (Basingstoke: Macmillan).
2. See for example, Penny Summerfield (1984) Women Workers in the Second World War (London: Croom Helm);
3. Gail Braybon (1989) Women Workers in the First World War (London: Routledge);
4. and P. Summerfield & G. Braybon (1987) Out of the Cage: women 's experiences in two World Wars (London: Pandora).
5. Penny Summerfield (1996) Meanders and migrations: the effects of the Second World War on women's work histories, paper given at the Annual Conference of the Social History Society of the United Kingdom, University of Strathclyde.
6. Joan Scott, Introduction, in M R. Higonnet, J. Jenson, S. Milhel & M Collins Weitz (Eds) (1987) Behind the Lines: gender and the two World Wars (Newhaven & London: Yale University Press).
7. Pat Ayers (1988) Women at War (Birkenhead: Liver Press).
8. Christine Williams (Ed.) (1993) Doing Women's Work?Men in Non-traditional Occupations (London: Sage).
9. Only two local references could be found for women workers in Portsmouth Dockyard: W. G. Gates (Ed.) (1919) Portsmouth and the Great War (Portsmouth: Charpentier)
10. and J. Sadden (1990) Keep the Home Fires Burning (Portsmouth: Portsmouth Evening News).
11. Gates, Portsmouth and the Great War.
12. Pam Taylor (1979) Daughters and mothers - maids and mistresses: domestic service between the wars, in J. Clarke, C. Critcher & R. Johnson (Eds) Working Class Culture (London: Hutchinson).
13. Rosemary Crompton (1984) White-collar Proletariat: deskilling and gender in clerical work (London: Macmillan).
14. Dorothy Sheridan (Ed.) (1990) Wartime Women (London: Heinemann).
15. Harold Smith (1986) The effect of the war on the status of women, in Harold Smith (Ed.) War and Social Change: British society in the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press).
16. Susan Carruthers (1990) "Manning' the factories: propaganda and policy on the employment of women, 1939-1947, History, 75, p. 244.
17. M R. Higonnet & P. L.-R. Higonnet (1987) The double helix, in: Higonnet et al (Eds) Behind the Lines.
18. Higonnet & Higonnet, The double helix'.
19. Carruthers, '"Manning" the Factories'.
20. Ray Riley (1974) The Portsmouth Corset Industry, in J. B. Bradbeer (Ed.) Portsmouth Geographical Essays, Vol. 1 (Portsmouth: Portsmouth Polytechnic).
21. Miriam Glucksmann (1990) Women Assemble (London: Routledge).
22. D. H. Middleton (1996) Airspeed: a short history (Titchfield: Polygraphic Ltd).
23. Sylvia Walby (1986) Patriarchy at Work (Cambridge: Polity Press).
24. Harold Smith (1981) The problem of 'equal pay for equal work' in Great Britain during World War 11, Journal of Modern History, 53, pp. 652-672.
25. Gregory Anderson (1988) The White-Blouse Revolution (Sal ford: University of Salford).
26. For the First World War period see Barbara Drake (1984) Women in Trade Unions (London: Virago).
27. For the First and the Second World Wars see Sarah Boston (1987) Women Workers and the Trade Unions (London: Lawrence & Wishart)
28. and Sheila Lewenhack (1977) Women and Trade Unions (London: E. Benn).
29. Richard Croucher (1982) Engineers at War 1939-1945 (London: Merlin Press).
30. Denise Riley (1979) War in the nursery, Feminist Review, 2, pp. 82408.
31. Summerfield, Women Workers in the Second World War.
32. Portsmouth Evening News (EN), 6 February 1942.
33. EN, 12 June 1942 - first nursery opened.
34. EN, 17 November 1943 - fourth nursery opened.
35. EN, 5 May 1944 - fifth (and last) nursery opened.
36. Penny Summerfield (1983-84) Women, work and welfare: a study of child care and shopping in Britain in the Second World War, Journal of Social History, 17, pp. 249-269.
37. EN, 22 February 1958.
38. S. W B. Leathlean (1990) A History of Apprentice Training in H.M. Dockyard Portsmouth (Winchester: Hampshire County Printing Service).
39. Martin Evans & Kenneth Lunn (Eds) (1997) War and Memory in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Berg).