1st Edition

Imagining Home Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964

By Wendy Webster Copyright 2023
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964 is a powerful examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. Exploring the legacy of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization after 1945, it is has become one of the outstanding books about the relationship between gender, race and... Read more

Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition

Introduction

1. Homecomings

2. Unbelongings

3. Home and Colonialism

4. This New England

5. Good Homes

6. Home and Work

7. Domestic Identities

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Wendy Webster is Professor of History at the Centre for History, Culture and Memory, University of Huddersfield, UK.

'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