Webster, Wendy (2013) "Fit to fight, fight to mix" Sexual patriotism in second world war Britain. Women's history review, 22 (4). pp. 607-624. ISSN 0961-2025
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During the Second World War the diversity of the population in Britain by nationality and ethnicity was unprecedented, multiplying British women's opportunities for relationships that crossed ethnic and national boundaries. This article uses evidence from Home Intelligence, Mass-Observation and official policy making to explore the gendered nature of anxieties about a wide range of British women's relationships—with white and black allies and with white enemies. In considering popular and official attitudes to mixing across national and ethnic difference and British women who flouted the rules of sexual patriotism, the article argues that the history of transnational and transethnic relationships in wartime Britain is an important episode in the shift towards a multiethnic and multinational society, commonly dated to the post-war period.
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D731 World War II D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain |
Schools: | School of Music, Humanities and Media |
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Depositing User: | Sharon Beastall |
Date Deposited: | 06 Sep 2012 10:01 |
Last Modified: | 28 Aug 2021 11:20 |
URI: | http://eprints.hud.ac.uk/id/eprint/14730 |
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