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. ÍNDICE: Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Why Gender, Labour, War and Empire?; P.Levine and S.R.Grayzel - PART I: LABOUR, SEX ANDRACE: 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 wartimeb : British Vogue's Responses to WWII; B.E.Conekin - b Fighting for the Idea of Home Lifeb : 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 ofthe British Empire; M.Francis - Disturbing the Peopleb s Peace: Patriotism and b Respectableb Racism in British Responses to Rhodesian Independence; A.Ritscherle - b Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?b : Race and Sex in 1950sBritain; E.Buettner - How is the National Past Imagined? National Sentimentality, True Feeling, and the b Heritage Film,b 1980-1995; G.Eley - Afterword; L.L.Frader -
- ISBN: 978-0-230-52119-3
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 308
- Fecha Publicación: 12/12/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés