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

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84893-310-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 543 g

Reihe: Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Haggett, Ali

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte

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;

Über Autor(innen)

Haggett, Ali