{"product_id":"imagining-home-wendy-webster-9781857283518","title":"Imagining Home: Gender, Race and National Identity, 1945-1964","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eImagining Home\u003c\/em\u003e offers a unique examination of ideas and images of home in Britain during a period of national decline and loss of imperial power. In exploring the relationship between gender, 'race' and national identity, it higlights the continuing importance of empire in imaginings of the nation during a period of decolonization. Analyzing the significance of colonialism and racism in shaping ideas of motherhood, employment and domestictiy, it traces the process by which Englishness was increasingly associated with domestic order, and the home and family constructed as white.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing extensively on oral history and life-writing, \u003cem\u003eImagining Home\u003c\/em\u003e examines the multiple meanings of home to women in narratives of beloning and unbelonging. Its focus on the complex interrelationships of white and black women's lives and identities offers a new perspective on this period.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Wendy Webster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1857283511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781857283518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 268\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.47w x 0.50d","brand":"Wendy Webster","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48136929345791,"sku":"9781857283518","price":72.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a2d01918-497f-4d91-adb0-ba7ad2f0c111.jpg?v=1770165393","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/imagining-home-wendy-webster-9781857283518","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}