![]() ![]() Graceful secretary, desirable air hostess, and glamorous model were presented as much more appropriate ambitions than a career as a lawyer, doctor, or politician. She looks at the fields now open to women (all of them, basically, though women were only being paid 59% of what men received in the same roles) versus the conditioning in popular media that reminded them femininity was the most important thing. Through these women and their experience, Nicholson marks the mood of the decade. several educated but desperately isolated suburban housewives.a working class girl who studied at Cambridge.To tell her story, Nicholson draws on an amazing variety of first-hand accounts from: But for too many, their own ignorance, fears, confining desires and expectations were bred-in-the-bone. The war had exploded the inequality myth. ![]() Here, she has moved on to the 1950s.įor thousands of young women in the early 1950s, the dreams of education, career, achievement and fulfillment were within reach. ![]() Nicholson writes social histories that focus on British women and in previous books she’s looked at surplus women following the First World War ( Singled Out) and women’s lives during and immediately after the Second World War ( Millions Like Us). I read a few really excellent books right at the end of 2015, the most enjoyable of which was Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes by Virginia Nicholson. ![]()
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