Gender, labour, war and empire : essays on modern Britain / edited by Philippa Levine and Susan R. Grayzel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Levine, Philippa.

Grayzel, Susan R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

History.

Women.

Great Britain--Social conditions--20th century.

Great Britain.

Social conditions.

Great Britain--Social conditions.

Women--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Women--Great Britain--History.

Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Colonies.

Great Britain--Race relations--History.

Great Britain--Foreign relations.

International relations.

Civilization, Modern--British influences.

Civilization, Modern.

Physical Description:

xiii, 282 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Gender, labor, war and empire

Place of Publication:

Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

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 early nineteenth-century slavery to responses to interracial marriage in the postwar era. In particular, the volume focuses on the Second World War and its aftermath, including its effects on decolonization. Inspired by the work of Sonya O. Rose, it provides a critical examination of how studies of gender, labour and war have transformed the history of modern imperial Britain.

Contents:

1 Introduction / Philippa Levine, Susan R. Grayzel 1

Part I Labour, Sex and Race: The Problems of Modernity 13

2 Remaking the British Working Class: Sonya Rose and Feminist History / Dennis Dworkin 15

3 In Search of Free Labour: Trinidad and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade / James Epstein 33

4 Race and the Regulation of Prostitution: Comparing Public Health in the U.S. and Greater Britain / Philippa Levine 51

5 The Colonial Actress: Empire, Modernity and the Exotic in Twentieth-Century London / Angela Woollacott 72

Part II Gender, Identity and the Second World War 91

6 British Feminism in the Second World War / Harold L. Smith 93

7 "Magazines are essentially about the here and now. And this was wartime": British Vogue's Responses to the Second World War / Becky E. Conekin 116

8 "Fighting for the Idea of Home Life": Mrs Miniver and Anglo-American Representations of Domestic Morale / Susan R. Grayzel 139

9 Film and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain 1950-1959 / Penny Summerfield 157

Part III Gender, Race and the Aftermath of War and Empire 177

10 Men of the Royal Air Force, the Cultural Memory of the Second World War and the Twilight of the British Empire / Martin Francis 179

11 Disturbing the People's Peace: Patriotism and "Respectable" Racism in British Responses to Rhodesian Independence / Alice Ritscherle 197

12 "Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?": Race and Sex in 1950s Britain / Elizabeth Buettner 219

13 How is the National Past Imagined? National Sentimentality, True Feeling and the "Heritage Film", 1980-1995 / Geoff Eley 238

14 Afterword to Gender, Labour, War and Empire / Laura L. Frader 256.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230521193

0230521193

OCLC:

233635140