Gender, Labour, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain, ed. Philippa Levine and Susan R. Grayzel

Abstract

The scholarship of Sonya O. Rose is known to anyone who works on modern British history, especially those working in the fields of gender, class, war and empire. This collection of essays by thirteen different authors, as wide-ranging in their scope as the work of Rose, serves as both a continuation of Rose's pioneering research in these areas, and, as a Festschrift, a tribute to this work. The book is divided into three sections, each of which has a focus on one of the main strands of Rose's work: ‘Labour, Sex and Race’, ‘Gender Identity and the Second World War’, and ‘Gender, Race and the Aftermath of War and Empire’. Gender thus provides the unifying theme for these essays, in particular an understanding, expressed in different ways by all of the authors here, of the ways in which gender history has impacted on, and reshaped, our conceptions of, and approaches to, class, war and empire in modern Britain.