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Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes

By Virginia Nicholson

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Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes

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Description
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 encompassed 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 when our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled. This is their story.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
560
Release Date:
2016-03-03
Publication Date:
2016-03-03
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0241958040
ISBN13:
9780241958049
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
0
Weight:
450 g
Height:
126 cm
Width:
198 cm
Thickness:
40 cm
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