Profile:
Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska teaches courses on modern British and European history. Her research has focused on several aspects of twentieth century British history. She has published articles on the history of the Conservative Party and electoral politics, a topic which she developed further in the co-edited collection The Conservatives and British Society, 1880-1990 (University of Wales Press, Cardiff, 1996). Her monograph, Austerity in Britain : Rationing, Controls and Consumption, 1939-1955 (Oxford University Press: Oxford , 2000), explores the history of food rationing and consumer goods shortages in Britain during and after the Second World War. Austerity in Britain won the 2001 British Council Prize awarded by the North American Conference on British Studies. She has developed an interest in the history of women, gender and the body. One outcome is an edited collection, Women in Twentieth Century Britain (editor and contributor) (Longman/Pearson Education: Harlow , 2001). Her most recent publications include an article on the male body which explores the construction of masculinity within the context of beauty ideals, obesity and reducing culture and a piece on the body beautiful, physical culture and its relationship with fascism in interwar Britain.She is currently writing a book on the body, beauty, health and fitness in Britain from the 1880s to the 1950s