Book reviews : West Indian Women at War: British racism in world war II

Race & Class ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 92-94
Author(s):  
Stella Dadzie
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
West Indian ◽  
World War ◽  
Indian Women

Book Reviews

2009 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 112-130
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
State University ◽  
Social Reconstruction ◽  
World War ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Anti Semitism ◽  
The Holocaust

Katja Weber and Paul A. Kowert, Cultures of Order: Leadership, Language and Social Reconstruction in Germany and Japan (Albany: State University of New York Press 2007)Reviewed by Rainer BaumannSimon Green, Dan Hough, Alister Miskimmon, and Graham Timmins, The Politics of the New Germany (London and New York: Routledge, 2008)Reviewed by David P. ConradtJeffrey Herf, The Jewish Enemy: Nazi Propaganda during World War II and the Holocaust (Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006)Reviewed by Thomas FreemanMarc Fenemore, Sex, Thugs and Rock’n’Roll: Teenage Rebels in Cold-War East Germany (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007)Reviewed by Henning WrageFrancis R. Nicosia, Zionism and Anti-Semitism in Nazi-Germany (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)Reviewed by Klaus L. Berghahn

Indian Women in World War II: The Air Raid Precaution ‘Comfort’ Women

2021 ◽  
pp. 037698362110520
Author(s):  
Kashyap Deepak
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
War Crimes ◽  
Double Standard ◽  
Comfort Women ◽  
World War ◽  
Academic World ◽  
Indian Women ◽  
Crimes Against Women

The main focus of this article is on the war-stricken ecology of World War II and the notable role played by Indian women as Air Raid Precaution Wardens. They gave their unmatched services in the air raid–prone areas and earned a name. However, until the close of the war, they were reduced to not more than ‘comfort women’ for British officers and soldiers. Simultaneously, the article explains how the women’s influential roles are sidelined by giving too much preference to the topic such as rape, abduction and war crimes against women. The critics and historians remain busy in criticising other armies on the atrocities inflicted upon women by them. The conclusion exposes the double standard of the academic world: first, they criticise Japan over the issue of ‘comfort women’, but they close their eyes towards Indian women. The article explains how the British too exploited Indian women, but they remain hidden from the eyes of critics due to their gentlemen status.

Book reviews: Bernard Lovell, Astronomer by chance

1992 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-202
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Radio Telescope ◽  
Radio Astronomy ◽  
Radar System ◽  
World War ◽  
New Science

Bernard Lovell, Astronomer by chance . London: Macmillan, 1991. Pp. 380, £18.99. ISBN 0-333-55195-8 In his Story of Jodrell Bank and Out of the zenith Sir Bernard Lovell has already told us in impressive detail how he fostered the new science of radio astronomy and, against fearful odds, built the 250 foot radio telescope now called the Lovell telescope. In his forthcoming Echoes of war we are promised an account of the development of the H 2 S radar system on which he worked during World War II. For those of us who are not prepared to plough through these specialized books I recommend Astronomer by chance ; not only does it cover the interesting stories of Jodrell Bank and the development of H 2 S but it tells us more about the man behind them.

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