Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and Cinema in World War Two Britain

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Christine Gledhill, Gillian Swanson
Manchester University Press, 1996 - Всего страниц: 307
World War II was unprecedented in the changes it demanded in the contours of British life. Work, the family, social policies and the media were all transformed, blurring the boundaries between private and public life and challenging class and gender divisions. In particular, women were called upon to play a range of new roles which threw into question traditional conceptions of femininity and national identity. What was the relationship between gender and nation when the waiting woman was displaced by the working woman and homes were flattened by bombs? What happened to notions of femininity, sexual difference and class as women moved into the workplace and donned dungarees, military uniforms and utility clothing? Such questions are explored in this collection of essays which brings together the work of prominent feminist researchers in film, media studies and social history. Case studies examine competing definitions of feminism circulating in the cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion and broadcasting.
 

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mobile femininity ANTONIA LANT
13
PART
33
Bombs dont discriminate Womens political activism in the Second
53
morale consumption
70
marriage and divorce 193751
91
PART
107
times of war and management of the self
127
newsreel coverage of the British monarchy
140
propaganda and entertainment SUE HARPER
193
documentary melodrama
213
negotiating nationality and femininity
230
mobile women and married ladies
238
Stepping out or out of step? Austerity affluence and femininity
257
the problem of the postwar woman
264
Filmography
282
Index
299

dress appearance and femininity in wartime
152
PART THREE
175

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