Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945-1970 Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945-1970
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

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

Ali Haggett
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Publisher Description

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.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2015
6 October
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
256
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor & Francis
SIZE
21.1
MB

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