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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 encompassed rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster.
Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes reconstructs 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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Virginia Nicholson gets 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 (David Kynaston)
Nicholson handles her material with confidence, sympathy and, ultimately, optimism that for most women things have improved, so that the 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 (Anne Sebba Daily Telegraph)
Nicholson uses vivid contemporary sources and oral testimony to show the constraints under which so many women lived. Like David Kynaston's Family Britain . . . Nicholson has the same knack of seamlessly piecing gripping individual stories into a panorama of ordinary life (Bee Wilson Sunday Times)
An important and humane book of female social history . . . In this work, Nicholson musters voices to profound and deeply political effect. 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 be necessary reading, to remind them how far we have travelled. (Melanie Reid The Times)
An uplifting and heartwarming read (Stella)
Nicholson spells out the contradictions of this era so well: a new world dressed in old clothes (David Barnett Independent on Sunday)
Remarkable. To today's young, it'll sound like life on another planet (Daily Mail)
The achievements of the women in this book haunt us and move us to admiration (Tessa Hadley Guardian)
Insightful social history. Mixing research with a wealth of anecdote, Nicholson brings history to vivid and touching life (Jenny McCartney Mail on Sunday)
Poignantly illustrates how the women of the 1950s yearned for the innovative technology of the era to liberate them from repetitive drudgery (Victoria Coren Mitchell Observer)
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Nicholson handles her material with confidence, sympathy and, ultimately, optimism that for most women things have improved, so that the 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 (Anne Sebba Daily Telegraph)
Nicholson uses vivid contemporary sources and oral testimony to show the constraints under which so many women lived. Like David Kynaston's Family Britain . . . Nicholson has the same knack of seamlessly piecing gripping individual stories into a panorama of ordinary life (Bee Wilson Sunday Times)
An important and humane book of female social history . . . In this work, Nicholson musters voices to profound and deeply political effect. 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 be necessary reading, to remind them how far we have travelled. (Melanie Reid The Times)
An uplifting and heartwarming read (Stella)
Nicholson spells out the contradictions of this era so well: a new world dressed in old clothes (David Barnett Independent on Sunday)
Remarkable. To today's young, it'll sound like life on another planet (Daily Mail)
The achievements of the women in this book haunt us and move us to admiration (Tessa Hadley Guardian)
Insightful social history. Mixing research with a wealth of anecdote, Nicholson brings history to vivid and touching life (Jenny McCartney Mail on Sunday)
Poignantly illustrates how the women of the 1950s yearned for the innovative technology of the era to liberate them from repetitive drudgery (Victoria Coren Mitchell Observer)
Virginia Nicholson was 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. Her books include the acclaimed social histories Among the Bohemians, Singled Out, Millions Like Us, and Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes. She is married with three children and lives in Sussex.
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- Data di pubblicazione2016
- ISBN 10 0241958040
- ISBN 13 9780241958049
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- Numero di pagine560
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