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The Second World War 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 on to play a range of new roles which threw into question traditional conceptions of femininity and national identity.
What was the relation between gender and nation when the waiting woman was displaced by the mobile 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 groundbreaking collection of new essays which for the first time brings together the work of prominent feminist researchers in film, media studies, and social history. Case studies examine competing definitions of feminism circulating in cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion, and broadcasting.
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Motion pictures, Femininity, Women in war, World War, 1939-1945, History, Women in motion pictures, Women, Culture in motion picturesPlaces
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Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and Cinema in World War Two Britain
August 15, 1996, Manchester University Press
Hardcover
in English
0719042593 9780719042591
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Nationalising femininity: culture, sexuality, and British cinema in the Second World War
1996, Manchester University Press, Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press
in English
0719042593 9780719042591
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