Nationalising femininity : culture, sexuality, and British cinema in the Second World War

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Nationalising femininity : culture, sexuality, and British cinema in the Second World War

edited by Christine Gledhill and Gillian Swanson

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1996

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Nationalising femininity

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Bibliography: p. [285]-297

Includes index

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World War II was unprecedented in the changes it demanded in the contours of British life. Work, the family, social policies and the media were all transformed, blurring the boundaries between private and public life and challenging class and gender divisions. In particular, women were called upon to play a range of new roles which threw into question traditional conceptions of femininity and national identity. What was the relationship between gender and nation when the waiting woman was displaced by the working woman and homes were flattened by bombs? What happened to notions of femininity, sexual difference and class as women moved into the workplace and donned dungarees, military uniforms and utility clothing? Such questions are explored in this collection of essays which brings together the work of prominent feminist researchers in film, media studies and social history. Case studies examine competing definitions of feminism circulating in the cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion and broadcasting.

目次

  • Mobile femininity, Antonia Lant. Part 1 Mobile women - change and regulation: "The girl that makes the thing that drills the hole that holds the spring ..." - discourses of women and work in the Second World War, Penny Summerfield
  • "Bombs don't discriminate!" - women's political activism in the Second World War, Alison Oram
  • "So much money and so little to spend it on" - morale, consumption and sexuality, Gilliam Swanson
  • good wives and moral lives - marriage and divorce 1937-1951, Carol Smart. Part 2 Fashioning the national self - cultural practices and representations: "Pulling our weight in the call up of women" - class and gender in World War 2 British Radio, Joy Leman
  • "Race, gender and nationality - putting the black women in the frame", Deila Jarrett-Macauley
  • women's magazines - times of war and the management of the self, Janice Winship
  • the family firm restored - newsreel coverage of the British monarchy, 1936-45, Rosalind Brunt
  • fashioning the feminine - dress, appearance and femininity in wartime Britain, Pat Kirkham. Part 3 Nationalizing femininity - the case of British cinema: cinema culture and femininity in the 1930s, Annette Kuhn
  • the years of total war - propaganda and entertainment, Sue Harper
  • "An abundance of restraint" - documentary, melodrama and romance, Christine Gledhill
  • disguises and betrayals - negotiating nationality and femininity, Christine Geraghty
  • the female audience - mobile women and married ladies, Janet Thumin
  • stepping out or out of step? - austerity, affluence and femininity, Melinda Mash
  • two weddings and two funerals - the problem of the post-war woman, Tessa Perkins.

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