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A 1950s housewife : marriage and homemaking in the 1950s / Sheila Hardy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hardy, Sheila M.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Marriage.
- History.
- Home economics.
- Housewives.
- Great Britain.
- Housewives--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Home economics--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Marriage--Great Britain--History--20th century.
- Nineteen fifties.
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stroud, Gloucestershire : History Press, 2012.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dorothy Mann Yeakel & Paul Herbert Yeakel Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0752469894
- 9780752469898
- OCLC:
- 794814950
- Publisher Number:
- 99950611410
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