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Book SynopsisCase studies examine competing definitions of feminism, contoured by The Second World War, circulating in cinema, women's magazines, social policies, government pamphlets, fashion, and broadcasting
Table of Contents1. Prologue: mobile femininity
PART ONE
Mobile women: change and regulation
2. 'The girl that makes the thing . . . ': discourses of women and work in the Second World War
3. 'Bombs don't discriminate!' Women's political activism in the Second World War
4. 'So much money and so little to spend it on': morale, consumption and sexuality
5. Good wives and moral lives: marriage and divorce 1937-51
PART TWO
Fashioning the national self: cultural practices and representations
6. 'Pulling our weight in the call-up of women': class and gender in British radio in the Second World War
7. Putting the black women in the frame: Una Marson and the West Indian challenge to British national identity
8. Women's magazines: times of war and management of the self in Woman's Own
9. The Family Firm restored: newsreel coverage of the British monarchy 1936-45
10. Fashioning the feminine: dress, appearance and femininity in wartime Britain
PART THREE
Nationialising femininity: the case of British cinema
11. Cinema Culture and femininity in the 1930s
12. The years of total war: propaganda and entertainment
13. 'An abundance of understatement': documentary, melodrama and romance
14. Disguises and betrayals: negotiating nationality and femininity in three wartime films
15. The female audience: mobile women and married ladies
16. Stepping out or out of step? Austerity, affluence and femininity in two post-war films
17. Two weddings and two funerals: the problem of the post-war woman
