Gender, labour, war and empire : essays on modern Britain

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Gender, labour, war and empire : essays on modern Britain

edited by Philippa Levine and Susan R. Grayzel

Palgrave Macmillan, 2009

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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A lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of focus include the Second World War, its legacies and the reactions to postwar decolonization.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Why Gender, Labour, War and Empire?
  • P.Levine and S.R.Grayzel PART I: LABOUR, SEX AND RACE: THE PROBLEMS OF MODERNITY Remaking the British Working Class: Sonya Rose and Feminist History
  • D.Dworkin In Search of Free Labour: Trinidad and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade
  • J.Epstein Race and the Regulation of Prostitution: Comparing Public Health in the US and Greater Britain
  • P.Levine The Colonial Actress: Empire, Modernity and the Exotic in Twentieth-Century London
  • A.Woollacott PART II: GENDER, IDENTITY, AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR British Feminism in the Second World War
  • H.L.Smith "Magazines are essentially about the here and now. And this was wartime': British Vogue's Responses to WWII
  • B.E.Conekin 'Fighting for the Idea of Home Life': Mrs Miniver and Anglo-American 181 Representations of Domestic Morale
  • S.R.Grayzel Film and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain 1950-1959
  • P.Summerfield PART III: GENDER, RACE, AND THE AFTERMATH OF WAR AND EMPIRE Men of the Royal Air Force, the Cultural Memory of the Second World War and the Twilight of the British Empire
  • M.Francis Disturbing the People's Peace: Patriotism and 'Respectable' Racism in British Responses to Rhodesian Independence
  • A.Ritscherle 'Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?': Race and Sex in 1950s Britain
  • E.Buettner How is the National Past Imagined? National Sentimentality, True Feeling, and the 'Heritage Film,' 1980-1995
  • G.Eley Afterword
  • L.L.Frader

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