An edition of A 1950s housewife
(2012)
A 1950s housewife
marriage and homemaking in the 1950s
by Sheila M. Hardy
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Being a housewife in the 1950s was quite a different experience to today. This book collects heartwarming personal anecdotes from women who embarked on married life during this fascinating postwar period.
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Women, History, Housewives, Marriage, Home economics, Nineteen fifties, House and Home, Home economics, history, Marriage, great britain, Twentieth centuryPlaces
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A 1950s housewife: marriage and homemaking in the 1950s
2012, History Press
in English
0752469894 9780752469898
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Table of Contents
1
Going Out -- 15 -- 2
Something New, Something Borrowed ... -- 23
Jean's Story -- 41
Diana's Story -- 43 -- 3
A Home of Their Own -- 47 -- 4
Making It Like Home -- 53 -- 5
The Daily Routine -- 67 -- 6
'Twas on a Monday Morning ... -- 75 -- 7
Putting on the Style -- 82 -- 8
Leisure Time -- 96 -- 9
Which Twin Had the Toni? -- 108 -- 10
In Her Shopping Basket She Has ... -- 116 -- 11
A Bicycle Made for Two ... -- 125 -- 12
Health and Beauty -- 135 -- 13
The Status of Women in the 1950s -- 150 -- 14
Tings Ain't Wot They Used T'be -- 158 -- 15
Let's Talk About Sex-- 172.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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