Imagining Home
Gender, Race And National Identity, 1945-1964
1st Edition
Published on 8. August 2005
268 pages
978-1-135-36647-6 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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.
Reviews / Votes
'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
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
File size
11,30 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-135-36647-6 (9781135366476)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/1998
1st Edition
Routledge
€206.20
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Book
02/1998
1st Edition
Routledge
€78.20
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
Webster, Wendy
Content
Homecomings; unbelongings; home and colonialism; the new England; good homes; home and work; domestic identities.
