Perfect wives in ideal homes : the story of women in the 1950s / Virginia Nicholson.
Publication details: London : Viking, an imprnt of Penguin Books, 2015.Description: xviii, 526 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780670921317 (hardback)
- Story of women in the 1950s
- Since 1900
- Nineteen fifties
- Social conditions
- Women -- Social conditions
- Kvinnor
- Women
- Women -- Employment -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- Education -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Sex role -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
- Women -- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 20th century
- Nineteen fifties
- Great Britain
- Storbritannien
- Great Britain -- Social conditions -- 1945-
- Women
- Social conditions
- Great Britain
- History
- Overseas item
- 305.4/0941/09045 23
- HQ1593 .N53 2015
- Also issued online.
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 305.4 NIC | Available | 065918 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Elizabethans -- The Post-war Blues -- Coronation Fever -- White-flowering Days -- All This I Promise to Do -- Black and White -- The Empty Vessel -- 2.Her True Calling -- The Twin Pillars -- A Better World? -- Houseproud -- Past Praying For -- Forbidden Facts -- 3.Lovely in Every Way -- How to Get Your Man -- Razzamatazz -- Who is This Beautiful Princess Going to Marry? -- The Wages of Sin -- Every Child a Wanted Child -- 4.Paved with Gold -- The Game -- Good-time Girl -- Bright Lights -- The Shires -- 5.When I Grow Up . . . -- Gymslips -- Wife School -- Bluestockings -- Reds -- Wasted Women -- 6.Queen of Her Castle -- Renunciation -- Feed Him, Love Him --- or Lose Him . . . -- Three Marriages -- My Own Front Door -- The Grand Plan -- 7.What's My Line? -- Clocking On -- A Little Extra -- You Might Be a Secretary -- Flight Paths -- Playing at "Working -- 8.On Parade -- The Regiment -- The Canal -- The Rose Bowl -- Good Morning Campers --
Contents note continued: Swanky Ladies -- 9.Keeping Up with the Joneses -- How to Get On in Society -- Housewives' Choice -- So Different, So Appealing -- Mad and Bad -- Disgrace -- 10.Under the Radar -- We Will All Go Together -- The Cause of Peace -- The Women's Caravan -- Fish Out of Water -- Ticket to Freedom -- 11.A Living Doll -- Sardines in Suburbia -- Lollipop -- The Golden Palace -- The Candy Shop -- Leading Ladies.
In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures; a promised land of batch-baking, maraschino cherries and brightly hued plastic. A world where the darker side of the decade encompasses rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster.
Also issued online.