Lucy Bland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucy Bland |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucy |
| FAMILY NAME | Bland |
| SIGNATURE | BLAND L |
| AFFILIATIONS | London Metropolitan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Investigating the Investigators
This paper investigates the investigators behind the distinct ‘moral panic’ that targeted mixed-race families residing in Britain’s multiracial port communities during the interwar period. This period witnessed heightened social anxieties following the First World War, exacerbated by the economic downturn and the visible presence of multiracial populations, a consequence of wartime labour demands. The 1919–1920 ‘race riots’, erupting in various B…
Britain’s ‘brown babies’
This book recounts the little-known history of the mixed-race children born to black American servicemen and white British women during the Second World War. Of the three million American soldiers stationed in Britain from 1942 to 1945, about 8 per cent (240,000) were African-American; the latter's relationships with British women resulted in the birth of an estimated 2,000 babies. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; t…
Born to black GIs
Defying racial prejudice
When American troops started to arrive in Britain in 1942 there was concern about British women’s potential intimacy with black GIs. To discourage such relationships, British troops, including the women in the ATS, were lectured on the need to keep contact with black GIs to a minimum; soldiers found with black GIs were reported; a whispering campaign hinted at the high rate of VD amongst black Americans; women were prosecuted under DORA for tresp…
Interracial Relationships and the “Brown Baby Question”
Modern women on trial
Focusing on a number of sensational trials with young female defendants involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-1924, the books suggests that the figure of the modern woman/flapper was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. Later she came to stand for the ‘roaring’ 1920s, but in the per…
The Match Girl and the Heiress
Lucy Bland Interview – 23 May 2011
Hunnish Scenes' and a 'Virgin Birth
When, in June 1921, a clairvoyant informed Christabel Russell, to her great surprise, that she was pregnant, her husband denied paternity and petitioned for divorce on grounds of adultery. The Hon. John Russell claimed that on the very few occasions that they had slept in the same bed in their two and half years of marriage, his method of birth control (which she referred to disapprovingly as "Hunnish scenes") had made pregnancy impossible. What …
The Trials and Tribulations of Edith Thompson
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The Long Sexual Revolution
Women Police
Sexual Moralities
White Women and Men of Colour
This article examines miscegenation fears in Britain in the period after World War I, noting three dominant discourses: that miscegenation leads inevitably to violence between white and black men (focusing on the 1919 race riots), that these relationships involve sexual immorality (analysing the 1920 'Black Horror on the Rhine', a case involving a white woman, a Chinese man and drugs and a trial of a white woman for killing her Egyptian husband) …
Exile and Asylum
Fashion and Beauty
'Ordinary People Come Through Here': Locating the Beauty Salon in Women's Lives Paula Black Classy Lingerie Merl Storr Trousers and Tiaras: Audrey Hepburn, a Woman's Star Rachel Moseley Multicultural Fashion...Stirrings of Another Sense of Aesthetic and Memory Nirmal Puwar Dialogue Section Indian Beauty Parlours Rita Rupal Production as Participation: A Case Study of Heba: An 'Alternative' Mode of Production in the UK Fashion Industry Juliet Ash …
Banishing the Beast
Journal Article Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. By Lucy Bland. (New York: New Press, 1995. xx, 410 pp. $25.00, ISBN 1-56584-307-X.) Get access Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman California State University, Fresno, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Page 236, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945558 Published: 01 June 1996
Heterosexuality, feminism and The Freewoman journal in early twentieth-century England [1]
In 1911 a new feminist paper appeared calledThe Freewoman. Its life was short, its circulation small, but its reputation was notorious and its influence of some significance in feminist and radical circles. The paper's notoriety stemmed largely from its open discussion of sex, or rather heterosexuality, since lesbianism and homosexuality were barely mentioned. Combining older feminist concerns with newer sexological concepts, women and men discus…
Purifying' the public world
In late nineteenth-century England, a number of feminists confronted prostitution through the closing of brothels and the expulsion of prostitutes from places of entertainment. Feminist historians have either understood this behaviour as reflective of feminist' powerlessness within the largely non-feminist movement for social purity, or they have neglected the behaviour and concentrated on the aspects of these women' work that appear more positiv…
Letters
Rational sex or spiritual love
The sexuality debates
The Spectacle of Women
The Prism of Sex
White Women and Men of Colour
This article examines miscegenation fears in Britain in the period after World War I, noting three dominant discourses: that miscegenation leads inevitably to violence between white and black men (focusing on the 1919 race riots), that these relationships involve sexual immorality (analysing the 1920 'Black Horror on the Rhine', a case involving a white woman, a Chinese man and drugs and a trial of a white woman for killing her Egyptian husband) …
The Prism of Sex
The Trials and Tribulations of Edith Thompson
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Interracial Relationships and the “Brown Baby Question”
Banishing the Beast
Journal Article Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. By Lucy Bland. (New York: New Press, 1995. xx, 410 pp. $25.00, ISBN 1-56584-307-X.) Get access Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman California State University, Fresno, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Page 236, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945558 Published: 01 June 1996
Purifying' the public world
In late nineteenth-century England, a number of feminists confronted prostitution through the closing of brothels and the expulsion of prostitutes from places of entertainment. Feminist historians have either understood this behaviour as reflective of feminist' powerlessness within the largely non-feminist movement for social purity, or they have neglected the behaviour and concentrated on the aspects of these women' work that appear more positiv…
Exile and Asylum
Heterosexuality, feminism and The Freewoman journal in early twentieth-century England [1]
In 1911 a new feminist paper appeared calledThe Freewoman. Its life was short, its circulation small, but its reputation was notorious and its influence of some significance in feminist and radical circles. The paper's notoriety stemmed largely from its open discussion of sex, or rather heterosexuality, since lesbianism and homosexuality were barely mentioned. Combining older feminist concerns with newer sexological concepts, women and men discus…
Rational sex or spiritual love
The Prism of Sex
The sexuality debates
The Spectacle of Women
Letters
Rational sex or spiritual love
Purifying' the public world
In late nineteenth-century England, a number of feminists confronted prostitution through the closing of brothels and the expulsion of prostitutes from places of entertainment. Feminist historians have either understood this behaviour as reflective of feminist' powerlessness within the largely non-feminist movement for social purity, or they have neglected the behaviour and concentrated on the aspects of these women' work that appear more positiv…
Heterosexuality, feminism and The Freewoman journal in early twentieth-century England [1]
In 1911 a new feminist paper appeared calledThe Freewoman. Its life was short, its circulation small, but its reputation was notorious and its influence of some significance in feminist and radical circles. The paper's notoriety stemmed largely from its open discussion of sex, or rather heterosexuality, since lesbianism and homosexuality were barely mentioned. Combining older feminist concerns with newer sexological concepts, women and men discus…
Banishing the Beast
Journal Article Banishing the Beast: Sexuality and the Early Feminists. By Lucy Bland. (New York: New Press, 1995. xx, 410 pp. $25.00, ISBN 1-56584-307-X.) Get access Lillian Faderman Lillian Faderman California State University, Fresno, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 1, June 1996, Page 236, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945558 Published: 01 June 1996
Fashion and Beauty
'Ordinary People Come Through Here': Locating the Beauty Salon in Women's Lives Paula Black Classy Lingerie Merl Storr Trousers and Tiaras: Audrey Hepburn, a Woman's Star Rachel Moseley Multicultural Fashion...Stirrings of Another Sense of Aesthetic and Memory Nirmal Puwar Dialogue Section Indian Beauty Parlours Rita Rupal Production as Participation: A Case Study of Heba: An 'Alternative' Mode of Production in the UK Fashion Industry Juliet Ash …
Exile and Asylum
White Women and Men of Colour
This article examines miscegenation fears in Britain in the period after World War I, noting three dominant discourses: that miscegenation leads inevitably to violence between white and black men (focusing on the 1919 race riots), that these relationships involve sexual immorality (analysing the 1920 'Black Horror on the Rhine', a case involving a white woman, a Chinese man and drugs and a trial of a white woman for killing her Egyptian husband) …
Sexual Moralities
The Long Sexual Revolution
Women Police
The Trials and Tribulations of Edith Thompson
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Hunnish Scenes' and a 'Virgin Birth
When, in June 1921, a clairvoyant informed Christabel Russell, to her great surprise, that she was pregnant, her husband denied paternity and petitioned for divorce on grounds of adultery. The Hon. John Russell claimed that on the very few occasions that they had slept in the same bed in their two and half years of marriage, his method of birth control (which she referred to disapprovingly as "Hunnish scenes") had made pregnancy impossible. What …
Lucy Bland Interview – 23 May 2011
Modern women on trial
Focusing on a number of sensational trials with young female defendants involving drugs, murder, adultery, miscegenation and sexual perversion in the period 1918-1924, the books suggests that the figure of the modern woman/flapper was a personification of the upheavals of the time, representing anxieties about modernity, and instabilities of gender, class, race and national identity. Later she came to stand for the ‘roaring’ 1920s, but in the per…
The Match Girl and the Heiress
Interracial Relationships and the “Brown Baby Question”
Defying racial prejudice
When American troops started to arrive in Britain in 1942 there was concern about British women’s potential intimacy with black GIs. To discourage such relationships, British troops, including the women in the ATS, were lectured on the need to keep contact with black GIs to a minimum; soldiers found with black GIs were reported; a whispering campaign hinted at the high rate of VD amongst black Americans; women were prosecuted under DORA for tresp…
Britain’s ‘brown babies’
This book recounts the little-known history of the mixed-race children born to black American servicemen and white British women during the Second World War. Of the three million American soldiers stationed in Britain from 1942 to 1945, about 8 per cent (240,000) were African-American; the latter's relationships with British women resulted in the birth of an estimated 2,000 babies. The African-American press named these children 'brown babies'; t…
Born to black GIs
Investigating the Investigators
This paper investigates the investigators behind the distinct ‘moral panic’ that targeted mixed-race families residing in Britain’s multiracial port communities during the interwar period. This period witnessed heightened social anxieties following the First World War, exacerbated by the economic downturn and the visible presence of multiracial populations, a consequence of wartime labour demands. The 1919–1920 ‘race riots’, erupting in various B…
Sociology (19 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · History (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes (10 works) · Human sexuality (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (7 works) · Feminism (6 works) · History (5 works)