Gender, Labour, War and Empire

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