Gillian Swanson
Gillian Swanson is Reader in Cultural History at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research focuses on the cultural history of private life, sexual identity and behaviour, and cultures of consumption and entertainment, particularly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Her previous publications include Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and British Cinema in the Second World War (1996, co-editor Christine Gledhill) and Deciphering Culture: Ordinary...See more
Gillian Swanson is Reader in Cultural History at the University of the West of England, Bristol. Her research focuses on the cultural history of private life, sexual identity and behaviour, and cultures of consumption and entertainment, particularly in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain. Her previous publications include Nationalising Femininity: Culture, Sexuality and British Cinema in the Second World War (1996, co-editor Christine Gledhill) and Deciphering Culture: Ordinary Curiosities and Subjective Narratives (2000, co-authors Jane Crisp and Kay Ferres). See less
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