Gender, Labour, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain

by Philippa Levine, Susan R. Grayzel

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230521193
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	12/11/2008
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	282
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

ELIZABETH BUETTNER Senior Lecturer in History, University of York, UK BECKY E. CONEKIN Senior Research Fellow, the London College of Fashion, UK DENNIS DWORKIN Lecturer in British and Irish History, the University of Nevada, USA GEOFF ELEY Karl Pohrt Distinguished University Professor of Contemporary History, the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA JAMES EPSTEIN Lecturer in History, Vanderbilt University, USA LAURA L. FRADER Professor of History, Northeastern University, USA, and Senior Associate in Residence, the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, USA MARTIN FRANCIS Henry R. Winkler Associate Professor of Modern History, the University of Cincinnati, USA SUSAN R. GRAYZEL Associate Professor of History, the University of Mississippi, USA PHILIPPA LEVINE Professor of History, the University of Southern California, USA ALICE RITSCHERLE Assistant Professor of History, Stony Brook University, USA HAROLD L. SMITH Professor of History at the University of Houston-Victoria, USA PENNY SUMMERFIELD Professor of Modern History, the University of Manchester, UK ANGELA WOOLLACOTT Professor of Modern History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia

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

Editorial Reviews

'This elegant volume not only celebrates one of the most influential social historians of our time, but offers a compelling and up to date historiographical treatment of the most important trends in British history over the last generation.' - Nicoletta F. Gullace, University of New Hampshire, USA

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