Feminist historians have long analysed the constructions and meanings of home, whether as domestic space or the place of belonging and longing. This book brings together these dimensions, and in doing so, provides inspiring new historical perspectives on the politics of homes and homecomings.

Original research from a group of international scholars explores the gendered dynamics of both the home and movement away from home. This is explored within the realms of the literal and ideological construction of many homes - twentieth-century homes in capitalist and socialist societies, or the 'corporate domesticity' of shipboard homes. Contributions also examine the history of masculinity and domesticity in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and the intersection of race, gender and class in policies of repatriation.

Using innovative methodological and theoretical approaches, Homes and Homecomings provides case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe, as well as discussing movements across the globe. The book contains original illustrations, and provides an important reference for historians and scholars across a broad range of disciplines.

K. H. Adler lectures in history at the University of Nottingham. She is the author of Jews and Gender in Liberation France (2003), and the editor of Gender & History. She is currently working on a book about post-war homecomings in twentieth-century France.

Carrie Hamilton lectures in History at Roehampton University, London, where she is also Director of the Centre for Research in Sex, Gender and Sexuality. She is the author of Women and ETA: The Gender Politics of Radical Basque Nationalism (2007), and is currently writing a book on sexuality and the Cuban Revolution.