Imagining Home: Gender, Race And National Identity, 1945-1964 (Women's and Gender History) - Softcover

Webster, Wendy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1857283511 ISBN 13: 9781857283518

Publisher: Routledge, 1998

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

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. The book focuses on the experiences of black, Asian and white women in the postwar period. It provides an assessment of the impact of demobilization and examines central issues such as paid work, domesticity and motherhood.

About the Author:

Robert Foulke is Professor Emeritus at Skidmore College. He is on the advisory board of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Maritime History and is the editor of the Cambridge University Press edition of Joseph Conrad's The Mirror of the Sea

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1857283511
• ISBN 13: 9781857283518
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 268