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Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes : The Story of Women in the 1950s, EPUB eBook

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes : The Story of Women in the 1950s EPUB

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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 encompasses 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 where our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled.

This is their story.


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'Insightful social history. Mixing research with a wealth of anecdote, Nicholson brings history to vivid and touching life' Mail On Sunday

'An uplifting and heartwarming read' Stella

'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

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