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

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Remaking the British Working Class: Sonya Rose and Feminist History....Pages 15-32
In Search of Free Labour: Trinidad and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade....Pages 33-50
Race and the Regulation of Prostitution: Comparing Public Health in the U.S. and Greater Britain....Pages 51-71
The Colonial Actress: Empire, Modernity and the Exotic in Twentieth-Century London....Pages 72-89
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
British Feminism in the Second World War....Pages 93-115
“Magazines are essentially about the here and now. And this was wartime”: British Vogue’s Responses to the Second World War....Pages 116-138
“Fighting for the Idea of Home Life”: Mrs Miniver and Anglo-American Representations of Domestic Morale....Pages 139-156
Film and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain 1950–1959....Pages 157-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-177
Men of the Royal Air Force, the Cultural Memory of the Second World War and the Twilight of the British Empire....Pages 179-196
Disturbing the People’s Peace: Patriotism and “Respectable” Racism in British Responses to Rhodesian Independence....Pages 197-218
“Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?”: Race and Sex in 1950s Britain....Pages 219-237
How is the National Past Imagined? National Sentimentality, True Feeling and the “Heritage Film”, 1980–1995....Pages 238-255
Afterword to Gender, Labour, War and Empire....Pages 256-268
Back Matter....Pages 269-282