Ali Haggett

Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945-1970

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Although the figure of the 'desperate housewife' is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and '60s led satisfying lives and that gender roles, while very different, were often seen as equal.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 543g
• ISBN-13: 9781848933101
• ISBN-10: 184893310X
• Artikelnr.: 43750983

Autorenporträt

Haggett, Ali

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter 1 Reflections on the Desperate Housewife
Chapter 2 The Art of Marriage: Marriage and Mothering During the Post-War Period
Chapter 3 The Housewife's Day: Personal Accounts of Housewifery and Mothering
Chapter 4 Lightening Troubled Minds: Mid-Twentieth Century Medical Understandings of Affective Disorders
Chapter 5 Not Something you Talk about: Personal Accounts of Anxiety and Depression
Chapter 6 For Ladies in Distress: Representations of Anxiety and Depression in the Medical and Popular Press
conclusion Conclusion