Imagining Home

<p><em>Imagining Home: Gender Race and National Identity 1945-1964 </em>is a powerful examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. Exploring the legacy of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization after 1945 it is has become one of the outstanding books about the relationship between gender race and national identity.</p><p>Analyzing the role of colonialism and racism in shaping ideas of motherhood employment and domesticity it brilliantly traces the way in which Englishness became associated with domestic order and the very idea of home became white exploring themes that reverberate strongly today as arguments around gender race and feminism occupy the headlines.</p><p>Drawing extensively on oral history and life-writing of politicians journalists churchmen health professionals novelists and film-makers Wendy Webster examines the multiple meanings of home to women in narratives of belonging and unbelonging. Its focus on the complex interrelationships of white and black women's lives and identities offers a compelling new perspective on this period.</p><p>This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Preface by the author.</p>