Gender, labour, war and empire : essays on modern Britain
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Gender, labour, war and empire : essays on modern Britain
Palgrave Macmillan, 2009
Available at 8 libraries
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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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