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

Informationen zum Autor Haggett, Ali Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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;

Product details

• Authors: Ali Haggett, Haggett Ali
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2012
• EAN: 9781848933101
• ISBN: 978-1-84893-310-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine; Studies for the Society for th; Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Women, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Social and cultural history, c 1950 to c 1959, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, C 1945 To C 1960