Behind enemy lines : Gender, passing and the Special Operations Executive in the Second World War /

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Behind Enemy Lines draws on personal testimonies, official records and film to explore the experiences of male and female clandestine agents who were recruited and trained by a British organisation and infiltrated into Nazi-Occupied France to encourage sabotage and subversion during the Second World...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pattinson, Juliette
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Special Operations Executive.
Great Britain. > Special Operations Executive > History.
Women spies.
Spies.
Sex role.
Secret service.
Spies > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Personal narratives, British.
Sex role > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Women spies > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
World War, 1939-1945 > Secret service > Great Britain.
Great Britain.
Personal narratives > British.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Reconstructing the Special Operations Executive
  • "To pass as a native" : recruiting for operations in France
  • "Taught how to play a part" : training agents for undercover work
  • "A jittery business" : representations of anxiousness in personal and filmic accounts
  • "Living a different life" : performing "heroic" and "stoic" masculinities
  • "The best disguise" : performing femininities for clandestine purposes
  • "Pretending at once" : passing performances in captivity
  • "So many happy memories" : demobilisation and the return to civvy street.

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