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PhD History University of Manchester
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According to Wikipedia, Penelope Summerfield, FBA, FRHistS, FAcSS , commonly known as Penny Summerfield, is an English historian and retired academic. Early life and education Born in 1951 in London, Summerfield is the daughter of Arthur Summerfield, a professor, and Aline Whalley, a psychologist. She attended the University of Sussex, graduating with a BA in 1973, an MA in 1976 and a DPhil in 1982. Her doctoral studies were supervised by Stephen Yeo.

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Penny Summerfield's Published Works

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Reconstructing Women's Wartime Lives: Discourse and Subjectivity in Oral Histories of the Second World War (1998) (139)
Culture and Composure: Creating Narratives of the Gendered Self in Oral History Interviews (2004) (137)
Women at War with America: Private Lives in a Patriotic Era. (1987) (127)
Feminism & Autobiography: Texts, Theories, Methods (2000) (73)
Women Workers in the Second World War: Production and Patriarchy in Conflict (1986) (73)
Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars (2012) (59)
Women Workers in the Second World War (1977) (53)
Mass-Observation: Social Research or Social Movement? (1985) (48)
‘You weren't taught that with the welding’: lessons in sexuality in the second world war (1992) (43)
Gender and War in the Twentieth Century (1997) (36)
Feminism and autobiography [electronic resource] : texts, theories, methods. (2000) (33)
Out of the Cage: Women's Experiences in Two World Wars. (1990) (31)
Contesting home defence: Men, women and the Home Guard in the Second World War (2007) (29)
Dunkirk and the Popular Memory of Britain at War, 1940—58 (2010) (26)
Women, Power and Resistance, an introduction to Women's Studies (1996) (25)
Women in Britain since 1945: companionate marriage and the double burden (2002) (24)
Women and war in the twentieth century (2008) (18)
Social reconstruction and the emergence of companionate marriage, 1945–59 (2019) (18)
Public Memory or Public Amnesia? British Women of the Second World War in Popular Films of the 1950s and 1960s (2009) (14)
‘They didn't want women back in that job!’: the Second World War and the construction of gendered work histories (1998) (14)
Technical Education and the State since 1850 (1990) (14)
Histories of the Self (2018) (13)
Early, Erotic and Alien: Women Dressed as Men in Late Medieval London (2014) (12)
Concluding Thoughts: performance, the self, and women's history (2013) (12)
Women in the firing line: the home guard and the defence of gender boundaries in Britain in the second world war (2000) (11)
Divisions at Sea: Class, Gender, Race, and Nation in Maritime Films of the Second World War, 1939–60 (2011) (11)
Women, Work and Welfare: A Study of Child Care and Shopping in Britain in the Second World War (1983) (11)
Women, War and Social Change: Women in Britain in World War II (1988) (11)
Contesting Home Defence: Men, Women and the Home Guard in Britain in the Second World War (2007) (10)
Technical Education and the State Since 1850: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (1990) (9)
Education and Politics in the British Armed Forces in the Second World War (1981) (9)
Patriotism and Empire: Music-Hall entertainment, 1870–1914 (2017) (8)
"Hey, you're dead!" The multiple uses of humour in representations of British National Defence in the Second World War. (2001) (6)
Oral History as an Autobiographical Practice (2016) (6)
More-Than-Human Emotional Communities: British Soldiers and Mules in Second World War Burma (2020) (5)
The patriarchal discourse of human capital: Training women for war work 1939–1945 (1993) (5)
War, film, memory: some reflections on war films and the social configuration of memory in Britain in the 1940s and 1950s (2007) (5)
The generation of memory : Gender and the popular memory of the Second World War in Britain (2014) (5)
What women learned from the Second World War (1989) (4)
Film and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain 1950–1959 (2009) (4)
Conflict, Power and Gender in Women’s Memories of the Second World War: a Mass-Observation Study (2010) (3)
Oral History as a Research Method (2005) (3)
Nine Wartime Lives: Mass-Observation and the making of the modern self JAMES HINTON (2013) (2)
War and welfare: British prisoner of war families, 1939–45 – By Barbara Hately‐Broad (2011) (2)
The Home Guard in Britain in the Second World War: Uncertain Masculinities? (2003) (2)
The Cambridge History of the Second World War, vol. III, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture (2017) (1)
Women workers in the Second World War : a study of the interplay in official policy between the need to mobilise women for war and conventional expectations about their roles at work and at home, in the period 1939-45 (1982) (1)
The Generation of Memory (2013) (1)
A New Approach to the Design of Threaded Connections (1991) (1)
Representations of women and home defence (2013) (1)
ReseaRch on women in BRitain in the second woRld waR An historiographical essay (1998) (1)
Dad's Army, the Home Guard, and the Memory of the British War Effort (2008) (1)
War, violence and gender (2009) (1)
The People’s Army: Competing visions of the Home Guard (2013) (0)
Dilution: Women in 'Men's Jobs' (2013) (0)
Introduction (2018) (0)
Women Between the Wars (2013) (0)
Remembering Shani D’Cruze (1954–2021) (2021) (0)
Jean R. Freedman. Whistling in the Dark: Memory and Culture in Wartime London. Lexington, Ky.: The University Press of Kentucky. 1999. Pp. xiii, 230. $29.95. ISBN 0-8131-2076-4. (1999) (0)
Dad’s Army and Home Guard history (2013) (0)
Historians and the diary (2018) (0)
EDUCATION AND THE LABOUR MARKET (1988) (0)
MacDougall, Voices of Scotswomen in Peace and War: spoken recollections of Home Life, Employment and 1939–45 War Service (2021) (0)
Women, memory and home defence (2013) (0)
Autobiography, memoir and the historian (2018) (0)
Women, weapons and home defence (2013) (0)
Taking the rise (1988) (0)
Introduction to Section 2 (2018) (0)
Historians’ uses of letters (2018) (0)
Men’s memories of the Home Guard (2013) (0)
Popular Memory and Oral History: Issues of Methodology in English Contemporary Historiography (2004) (0)
Beyond the home front. women's autobiographical writing of the two world wars (1998) (0)
'Our Amazonian Colleague?: Edith Summerskill's problematic reputation (2005) (0)
The Home Guard in wartime popular culture (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (1990) (0)
Alternative histories of the self: a cultural history of sexuality and secrets, 1762–1917 (2019) (0)
‘We Cows are in a Very Serious Predicament’: Constructions of Land Girls and Cattle in Britain in the Second World War (2021) (0)
4. Oral History as a Research Method (2013) (0)
Divided We Stand: Geoffrey Field, Blood Sweat and Toil: remaking the British working class 1939-1945 (2014) (0)
Ronald Cox, Oh, Captain Shaw. The Life Story of the First and Most Famous Chief of the London Fire Brigade . London: Victor Green, 1984). 191 pp. £12.00. (1985) (0)
Helen McCarthy, Double Lives: A History of Working Motherhood in Modern Britain (2022) (0)
Working Memory: Women and Work in World War II eds. by Marlene Kadar and Jeanne Perreault (review) (2018) (0)
Gender and Issues of Integration in Britain, 1939-45 (2007) (0)
Motherhood and Mourning. Gendering Grief in Wartime Japan, Germany and Britain (2017) (0)
‘Hey, You're Dead!’: The Multiple Uses of Humour in Representations of British National Defence in the Second World War (2001) (0)
Conclusion (2018) (0)
Oral history and historical practice (2018) (0)
Representativeness (2018) (0)
Churchill's Children: The Evacuee Experience in Wartime Britain. By John Welshman (2012) (0)
Narratives of the Past: Historians and the Oral History Conversation (2017) (0)
Gail Braybon 1952–2008: an appreciation (2009) (0)
Divided We Stand (2014) (0)
Book Reviews : Competing Discourses: Sexuality and Power in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (1994) (0)

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