Gender, Labour, War and Empire Essays on

This is 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.

PHILIPPA LEVINE teaches history at the University of Southern California. She has published most recently on sexuality and gender in the British Empire and is currently at work on a study of evolution and eugenics.

SUSAN R. GRAYZEL teaches history at the University of Mississippi. She is author of Womens Identities at War: Gender, Motherhood and Politics in Britain and France during the First World War (1999), winner of the 2000 British Council Prize, and Women and First World War (2002). Her current work focuses on gender and warfare from 1914-1945.

Acknowledgements	p. ix
Notes on Contributors	p. x
List of Illustrations	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Labour, Sex and Race: The Problems of Modernity	p. 13
Remaking the British Working Class: Sonya Rose and Feminist History	p. 15
In Search of Free Labour: Trinidad and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade	p. 33
Race and the Regulation of Prostitution: Comparing Public Health in the U.S. and Greater Britain	p. 51
The Colonial Actress: Empire, Modernity and the Exotic in Twentieth-Century London	p. 72
Gender, Identity and the Second World War	p. 91
British Feminism in the Second World War	p. 93
"Magazines are essentially about the here and now. And this was wartime": British Vogue's Responses to the Second World War	p. 116
"Fighting for the Idea of Home Life": Mrs Miniver and Anglo-American Representations of Domestic Morale	p. 139
Film and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain 1950-1959	p. 157
Gender, Race and the Aftermath of War and Empire	p. 177
Men of the Royal Air Force, the Cultural Memory of the Second World War and the Twilight of the British Empire	p. 179
Disturbing the People's Peace: Patriotism and "Respectable" Racism in British Responses to Rhodesian Independence	p. 197
"Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?": Race and Sex in 1950s Britain	p. 219
How is the National Past Imagined? National Sentimentality, True Feeling and the "Heritage Film", 1980-1995	p. 238
Afterword to Gender, Labour, War and Empire	p. 256
Index	p. 269
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