Gender, labour, war and empire[elect...
Grayzel, Susan R.

 

  • Gender, labour, war and empire[electronic resource] :essays on modern Britain /
  • Record Type: Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
    [NT 15000414]: 941.082
    Title/Author: Gender, labour, war and empire : essays on modern Britain // edited by Philippa Levine and Susan R. Grayzel.
    remainder title: Gender, labor, war and empire
    other author: Levine, Philippa.
    Published: Basingstoke [England] ; : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2009.
    Description: xiii, 282 p. : : ill. ;; 23 cm.
    Subject: Women - History - 20th century. - Great Britain
    Subject: Women - History. - Great Britain
    Subject: Civilization, Modern - British influences.
    Subject: Great Britain - Fiction.
    ISBN: 9780230582927
    ISBN: 0230582923
    [NT 15000227]: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    [NT 15000228]: 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 theBritish 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 Representationsof Domestic Morale / S.R.Grayzel -- Film and the Popular Memory of theSecond 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.
    [NT 15000229]: Gender, Labour, War and Empire offers a collection of original essays by a lively mix of scholars interested in the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and earlynineteenth-century slavery to responses to inter-racial marriage in the postwar era. In particular, the volume focuses on the Second World War and its aftermath, including its effectson decolonization. Inspired by the work of Sonya O. Rose, it provides a critical examination of howstudies of gender, labour, and war have transformed the history of modern imperial Britain.
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