Gender, Labour, War and Empire

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Remaking the British Working Class: Sonya Rose and Feminist History

Chapter 3 In Search of Free Labour: Trinidad and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade

Chapter 4 Race and the Regulation of Prostitution: Comparing Public Health in the U.S. and Greater Britain

Chapter 5 The Colonial Actress: Empire, Modernity and the Exotic in Twentieth-Century London

Chapter 6 British Feminism in the Second World War

Chapter 7 “Magazines are essentially about the here and now. And this was wartime”: British Vogue ’s Responses to the Second World War

Chapter 8 “Fighting for the Idea of Home Life”: Mrs Miniver and Anglo-American Representations of Domestic Morale

Chapter 9 Film and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain 1950–1959

Chapter 10 Men of the Royal Air Force, the Cultural Memory of the Second World War and the Twilight of the British Empire

Chapter 11 Disturbing the People’s Peace: Patriotism and “Respectable” Racism in British Responses to Rhodesian Independence

Chapter 12 “Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?”: Race and Sex in 1950s Britain

Chapter 13 How is the National Past Imagined? National Sentimentality, True Feeling and the “Heritage Film”, 1980–1995

Chapter 14 Afterword to Gender, Labour, War and Empire