Melissa Dinsman is Associate Professor of English at York College, CUNYMegan Faragher is Professor of English at Wright State University–Lake CampusRavenel Richardson is Executive Director of the Strategic Partnerships and Research Collaborative at Case Western Reserve University

• Introduction: Politicizing the domestic and domesticizing politics — Melissa Dinsman, Megan Faragher, and Ravenel RichardsonPart I: Introduction - Professionalizing the domestic — Megan Faragher1 Professional identity and personal space in Mary Renault’s Kind are her Answers and Return to Night— Victoria Stewart2 Talking shop: Celia Fremlin and invisible work — Luke Seaber3 ‘some thoroughly tiresome housekeeping crisis’: Rebecca West’s wartime journalism — Debra Rae Cohen4 ‘Coldly kind’: Calculating care in post-war British women’s writing — Emily RidgePart II - Introduction: Nationalizing gender politics – Melissa Dinsman5 New world women and the Labour party win in Marghanita Laski’s The Village — Sarah E. Cornish6 Beyond ‘companionate marriage’: Elizabeth Taylor’s gendered critique of post-war consensus in A View of the Harbour and A Wreath of Roses — Geneviève Brassard7 Dissident friendship and revolutionary love in the novels of Sabitri Roy and Sulekha Sanyal — Sabujkoli Bandopadhyay8 The political theory of heaven: Religious nationalism, mystical anarchism, and the Spanish Civil War in Sylvia Townsend Warner’s After the Death of Don Juan — Charles AndrewsPart III - Introduction: Women beyond the nation — Ravenel Richardson9 ‘A woman is always a woman!’: British women writers and refugees — Katherine Cooper 10 Families in a time of catastrophe: Anna Gmeyner’s Manja, 1920-1938 – Phyllis Lassner11 ‘Some other land, some other sea’: Attia Hosain’s fiction and nonfiction in Distant Traveller – Ambreen HaiBibliographyIndex