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Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson (Hardcover, 2015)

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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 time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal, and bikinis caused mass alarm. In 1951 British women helped to throw out the government that had brought them the Welfare State, and elect one that would deliver full employment and a consumer boom. 'We've got everything now. I've a fridge, a washer and a television set, and that's all I want in life . . .' But were our mothers and grandmothers really so easily satisfied? 'As a girl I wanted to be a lawyer. My headmistress said it wasn't for girls . . .' In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes Virginia Nicholson reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it. We meet factory girls and Teddy girls, students and housewives, diplomats and immigrants. We meet women who thought you got pregnant if you kissed a man. Women whose gloves matched their handbags. Femininity was for sale as never before. The dark side of the decade encompassed rampant prostitution, a notorious murder and the threat of nuclear disaster. Here is a narrative of frustration and fear - but also of beauty contests, optimism and rock 'n' roll. Step back in time - to the back-to-backs and the post-war suburbs. Here, where our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled. This is their story. 'Virginia Nicholson's finely judged, evocative and heartfelt book brings us the closest we have ever been to the complicated day-to-day reality of women's lives during that still controversial decade, the 1950s.' David Kynaston

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Penguin Books LTD
ISBN-13
9780670921317
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Author
Virginia Nicholson
Publication Name
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: the Story of Women in the 1950s
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Zoology, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
544 Pages

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222mm
Item Width
144mm
Item Weight
625g

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Virginia Nicholson
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom

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A brilliant social comment of women’s lives in the 50s
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