Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s
Autor Virginia Nicholsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 mar 2016
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 encompassed rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster.
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homesreconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it. Step back in time to when our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled.
This is their story.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241958049
ISBN-10: 0241958040
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 129 x 199 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241958040
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 129 x 199 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Virginia
Nicholsonwas
born
in
Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
grew
up
in
Yorkshire
and
Sussex,
and
studied
at
Cambridge
University.
She
lived
abroad
in
France
and
Italy,
then
worked
as
a
documentary
researcher
for
the
BBC.
A
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society
of
Literature,
her
books
include
the
acclaimed
social
historiesAmong
the
Bohemians,Singled
Out,
Millions
Like
Us,
andPerfect
Wives
in
Ideal
Homes.
She
is
married
with
three
grown-up
children
and
lives
in
Sussex.
Recenzii
Virginia
Nicholsongets
us
closer
than
we
have
ever
been
before
to
the
complicated
day-to-day
reality
of
women's
lives
during
that
still
controversial
decade,
the
1950s
Nicholson handles her material with confidence, sympathy and, ultimately, optimism that for most women things have improved, so thatthe abiding emotion is not gloom but, in my case, admiration for my mother's generation and gratitude that it was so much better for ours
Nicholson uses vivid contemporary sources and oral testimony to show the constraints under which so many women lived.Like David Kynaston'sFamily Britain . . .Nicholson has the same knack of seamlessly piecing gripping individual stories into a panorama of ordinary life
Animportant and humanebook of female social history . . . In this work, Nicholson musters voices toprofound and deeply politicaleffect. Much of the material in this book will be familiar to women over 55: we were born into this world. For younger women, though, Nicholson's book should benecessary reading, to remind them how far we have travelled.
Anupliftingandheartwarmingread
Nicholson spells out the contradictions of this era so well: a new world dressed in old clothes
Remarkable. To today's young, it'll sound like life on another planet
The achievements of the women in this book haunt us and move us to admiration
Insightfulsocial history. Mixing research with a wealth of anecdote, Nicholsonbrings history to vivid and touching life
Poignantly illustrates how the women of the 1950s yearned for the innovative technology of the era to liberate them from repetitive drudgery
Indefatigably researched, moving and perceptive, Nicholson handles her wide-ranging material with sympathy, humour and a lightness of touch. Her enviable gift for interpretation and storytelling is balanced by first-hand accounts ofthose women of the 1950s, their youth so relatively recent, who have trusted her with the intimate details of their lives
There is certainlywarmthin [Virginia Nicholson's]curiosityas she delves into the stories of her mother's generation . . . Nicholson's judgements are rightly andoften amusingly sharp. . . Herskill as an interviewerleaves her subjects revealing long-kept secrets andher flair as a writermakes us care about these young women and what happens to them
Richly detailed. We hear from women working as air hostesses, housewives, biscuit packers, prostitutes, academics, models, secretaries and Buttlin's Redcoats. We discover how women felt entering beatuty contests, having to give up work on marriage, being defined by their husband's jobs, becomming unmarried mothers, enduring racism, marching against nuclear weapons and desiring other women.Nicholson's own commentary, in turns compassionate and wry, holds everything together
Afascinatinglook at the lives of ordinary women in 1950s Britain
Meticulously researched
A ground-breaking book,richly nuanced with titbits of information,insightandunderstanding
Remarkably perceptive and well-researched . . . Virginia Nicholson has produced anotherextraordinarily interesting work, sensitive, intelligent and well-written
Aninspiringbook,lovingly researched, well-written and humane . . .the period is beautifully caught
The popular image is of a world where women wore little frilled pinafores with immaculately coiffed hair and happy smiles as they dusted, swept and baked . . . ButNicholson's book reveals a much darker side of life
Gripping, constantly surprising: a page-turner. We hear at first hand the life stories of women from different walks of life, from factory workers to debs.Each story draws you right in and it's always a wrench to move on
Nicholson handles her material with confidence, sympathy and, ultimately, optimism that for most women things have improved, so thatthe abiding emotion is not gloom but, in my case, admiration for my mother's generation and gratitude that it was so much better for ours
Nicholson uses vivid contemporary sources and oral testimony to show the constraints under which so many women lived.Like David Kynaston'sFamily Britain . . .Nicholson has the same knack of seamlessly piecing gripping individual stories into a panorama of ordinary life
Animportant and humanebook of female social history . . . In this work, Nicholson musters voices toprofound and deeply politicaleffect. Much of the material in this book will be familiar to women over 55: we were born into this world. For younger women, though, Nicholson's book should benecessary reading, to remind them how far we have travelled.
Anupliftingandheartwarmingread
Nicholson spells out the contradictions of this era so well: a new world dressed in old clothes
Remarkable. To today's young, it'll sound like life on another planet
The achievements of the women in this book haunt us and move us to admiration
Insightfulsocial history. Mixing research with a wealth of anecdote, Nicholsonbrings history to vivid and touching life
Poignantly illustrates how the women of the 1950s yearned for the innovative technology of the era to liberate them from repetitive drudgery
Indefatigably researched, moving and perceptive, Nicholson handles her wide-ranging material with sympathy, humour and a lightness of touch. Her enviable gift for interpretation and storytelling is balanced by first-hand accounts ofthose women of the 1950s, their youth so relatively recent, who have trusted her with the intimate details of their lives
There is certainlywarmthin [Virginia Nicholson's]curiosityas she delves into the stories of her mother's generation . . . Nicholson's judgements are rightly andoften amusingly sharp. . . Herskill as an interviewerleaves her subjects revealing long-kept secrets andher flair as a writermakes us care about these young women and what happens to them
Richly detailed. We hear from women working as air hostesses, housewives, biscuit packers, prostitutes, academics, models, secretaries and Buttlin's Redcoats. We discover how women felt entering beatuty contests, having to give up work on marriage, being defined by their husband's jobs, becomming unmarried mothers, enduring racism, marching against nuclear weapons and desiring other women.Nicholson's own commentary, in turns compassionate and wry, holds everything together
Afascinatinglook at the lives of ordinary women in 1950s Britain
Meticulously researched
A ground-breaking book,richly nuanced with titbits of information,insightandunderstanding
Remarkably perceptive and well-researched . . . Virginia Nicholson has produced anotherextraordinarily interesting work, sensitive, intelligent and well-written
Aninspiringbook,lovingly researched, well-written and humane . . .the period is beautifully caught
The popular image is of a world where women wore little frilled pinafores with immaculately coiffed hair and happy smiles as they dusted, swept and baked . . . ButNicholson's book reveals a much darker side of life
Gripping, constantly surprising: a page-turner. We hear at first hand the life stories of women from different walks of life, from factory workers to debs.Each story draws you right in and it's always a wrench to move on