Ebook {Epub PDF} Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the 1950s by Virginia Nicholson

In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Nicholson presents the lives of women in the s as a foreign country. The author uses vivid contemporary sources and oral testimony to show the constraints under which so many women lived. As social history, it bears . In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the s: 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 /5(). In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story Of Women In The ’s, Virginia Nicholson, author of Millions Like Us: Women’s Lives in the Second World War and Singled Out: How Two Million Women Survived without Men After the First World War, provides a 4/5(39).

story. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes-Virginia Nicholson 'Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes' reconstructs the real s, 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. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes. The historian Virginia Nicholson is steadily working her way through the female 20th century and I very much look forward to Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes: The Story of Women in the s (Viking, March). Nicholson is a brilliant and tireless researcher; every page will be replete with both startling facts and intimately personal stories. Author: Virginia Nicholson ISBN Will be clean, not soiled or stained. Books will be free of page markings.

In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the s: 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. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes The Story of Women in the s. Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes The Story of Women in the s. Virginia Nicholson. The book contains several photographs.