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Imagining Home Wendy Webster

Imagining Home By Wendy Webster

Imagining Home by Wendy Webster


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This study critically explores the lives of women in Britain during the immediate postwar period 1945-64, and re-examines the current conception of the 1950s as a nadir for women - when the values of domesticity and motherhood were paramount.

Imagining Home Summary

Imagining Home: Gender, Race And National Identity, 1945-1964 by Wendy Webster

Imagining Home offers a unique examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. In exploring the relationship between gender, 'race' and national identity, it higlights the continuing importance of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization. Analyzing the significance of colonialism and racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domestictiy, it traces the process by which Englishness was increasingly associated with domestic order, and the home and family constructed as white.
Drawing extensively on oral history and life-writing, Imagining Home examines the multiple meanings of home to women in narratives of beloning and unbelonging. Its focus on the complex interrelationships of white and black women's lives and identities offers a new perspective on this period.

Imagining Home Reviews

'A riveting study of gender, race and national identity.' - Guardian

'Highly readable and authoratative, introducing readers to potentially difficult ideas in a thoroughly accessible way.' - Ethnic and Racial Studies

'This is an interesting and important book and should stand as a landmark study for this formative period of contemporary British history.' - Professor Mary Chamberlain, Women's History Review

About Wendy Webster

Webster, Wendy

Table of Contents

Homecomings; unbelongings; home and colonialism; the new England; good homes; home and work; domestic identities.

Additional information

GOR005758031
9781857283518
1857283511
Imagining Home: Gender, Race And National Identity, 1945-1964 by Wendy Webster
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
19980217
268
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