Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Why Gender Labour War and Empire?; P. Levine and S. R. Grayzel PART I: LABOUR SEX AND RACE: THE PROBLEMS OF MODERNITY Remaking the British Working Class: Sonya Rose and Feminist History; D. Dworkin In Search of Free Labour: Trinidad and the Abolition of the British Slave Trade; J. Epstein Race and the Regulation of Prostitution: Comparing Public Health in the US and Greater Britain; P. Levine The Colonial Actress: Empire Modernity and the Exotic in Twentieth-Century London; A. Woollacott PART II: GENDER IDENTITY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR British Feminism in the Second World War; H. L. Smith "Magazines are essentially about the here and now. And this was wartime': British Vogue's Responses to WWII; B. E. Conekin 'Fighting for the Idea of Home Life': Mrs Miniver and Anglo-American 181 Representations of Domestic Morale; S. R. Grayzel Film and the Popular Memory of the Second World War in Britain 1950-1959; P. Summerfield PART III: GENDER RACE AND THE AFTERMATH OF WAR AND EMPIRE Men of the Royal Air Force the Cultural Memory of the Second World War and the Twilight of the British Empire; M. Francis Disturbing the People's Peace: Patriotism and 'Respectable' Racism in British Responses to Rhodesian Independence; A. Ritscherle 'Would You Let Your Daughter Marry a Negro?': Race and Sex in 1950s Britain; E. Buettner How is the National Past Imagined? National Sentimentality True Feeling and the 'Heritage Film' 1980-1995; G. Eley Afterword; L. L. Frader. Language: English