Caleb Woodall

My research, which is generously funded by the OOC AHRC DTP and the Isaac Newton Trust,  how male American civilians constructed, reconstructed, and expressed their masculinities and manhood during the period in which the Selective Service Act was in operation, from 1940 to 1947. Focusing on conscientious objectors, 'war workers' and agricultural labourers, and those men, including homosexuals, deemed 'physically, mentally, or morally unfit for service', I aim to provide a fuller picture of gender on the WWII home front by examining how these groups grappled with the rise of 'militarised masculinity' occasioned by the war.