ISBN:
9781848933101
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (250 p)
Series Statement:
Studies for the Society for the Social HIST of Medicine
Series Statement:
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Desperate Housewives, Neuroses and the Domestic Environment, 1945-1970
DDC:
306.461
Keywords:
Depression in women ; Social aspects
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Reflections on the Desperate Housewife; 2 The Art of Marriage: Marriage and Mothering during the Post-War Period; 3 The Housewife's Day: Personal Accounts of Housewifery and Mothering; 4 Lightening Troubled Minds: Mid-Twentieth Century Medical Understandings of Affective Disorders; 5 Not Something You Talk About: Personal Accounts of Anxiety and Depression; 6 For Ladies in Distress: Representations of Anxiety and Depression in the Medical and Popular Press; Conclusion; Appendix
Description / Table of Contents:
NotesWorks Cited; Index
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Description based upon print version of record
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