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Shaping the City to Come
This study reassesses modern architecture and town planning in mid-twentieth-century England, highlighting ideas and debates that were in circulation as modernist ideals gradually took root. The book reveals an architectural culture that was serious, active, and visionary, with impact that extended into the postwar years. Through close studies of specific works and writings, the author acknowledges the importance of the international context of modern architecture as it intersected with the variety of narratives that defined English modernism, such as national identity, the New Empiricism, and the picturesque, taking into account the large community of émigré architects who settled in Engl...
Food for Our Grandmothers
Thoughtful and critical, this memorable collection of essays, poems, and recipes by over forty Arab-American and Arab-Canadian feminists honors the courage and spirit of Arab women -- past, present, and future. Book jacket.
Gender, Labour, War and Empire
A lively collection of essays on the cultures of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain. Topics range from prostitution and slavery to the effect of war on fashion magazine reporting to inter-racial marriage in the postwar years. Particular areas of focus include the Second World War, its legacies and the reactions to postwar decolonization.
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Designing Modern Britain
Employing numerous examples of classic British design, Designing Modern Britain delves into the history of British design culture, and thereby tracks the evolution of the British national identity.
The Maternalists
The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between welfarism, maternalism, and psychoanalysis, Shaul Bar-Haim suggests a new reading of the British welfare state as a political project. After the First World War, British doctors, social thinkers, educators, and policy makers became increasingly interested in the contemporary turn being made in psychoanalytic theory toward the role of motherhood in child development. These public figures used new notions of the "maternal" to criticize modern European culture, and especially its patriarchal domestic struc...
Lee Miller
Die Amerikanerin Elizabeth «Lee» Miller (1907-1977) wurde zunächst als Model von Edward Steichen und als Muse des Surrealisten Man Ray berühmt. Doch bald machte sie sich als selbstständige Fotografin einen Namen. Als eine der wenigen weiblichen Kriegsreporterinnen der US-Army lieferte Miller einmalige Bilddokumente von der Invasion der Alliierten bis zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, die u.a. in der Vogue publiziert wurden. Um dem Kriegselend entgegenzuwirken, das ihr psychisch sehr zusetzte, schuf sie zur gleichen Zeit Fotografien, die bewiesen, dass Mode auch ein Akt des Widerstands sein konnte. Das nach Kriegsende einsetzende Comeback der französischen Modeindustrie wurde von ihr eindrücklich fotografisch dokumentiert. Heute werden Lee Millers Werke zu den bedeutendsten Fotoarbeiten des 20. Jahrhunderts gezählt. Doch viele ihrer Bilder für die Modewelt blieben unbeachtet oder gerieten in Vergessenheit. Der Autorin Becky Conekin ist es jetzt gelungen, diese Lücke zu schliessen. Das vorliegende, reichhaltig illustrierte Buch enthüllt so eine eher unbekannte Seite der Ikone Lee Miller. Eine grandiose Entdeckung, nicht nur für Modefans.
Britten's Unquiet Pasts
Heather Wiebe's book looks to the music of Benjamin Britten to elucidate a British postwar vision of cultural renewal.
