Her Brilliant Career
Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties
(Sprache: Englisch)
In her apron and rubber gloves, a smile lipsticked permanently across her face, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful to have sloughed off. A homely compliant creature, she knows little or nothing of sex, and...
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In her apron and rubber gloves, a smile lipsticked permanently across her face, the woman of the Fifties has become a cultural symbol of all that we are most grateful to have sloughed off. A homely compliant creature, she knows little or nothing of sex, and stands no chance at all of having a career. She must marry or die. But what if there was another side to the story? In this book Rachel Cooke tells the story of ten extraordinary women whose pioneering professional lives - and complicated private lives - paved the way for future generations. Muriel Box, film director. Betty Box, film producer. Margery Fish, plantswoman. Patience Grey, cook. Alison Smithson, architect. Sheila van Damm, rally car driver and theatre owner. Nancy Spain, journalist and radio personality. Joan Werner Laurie, editor. Jacquetta Hawkes, archaeologist. Rose Heilbron, QC. Plucky and ambitious, they left the house, discovered the bliss of work, and ushered in the era of the working woman. This is the Fifties, retold: vivid, surprising and, most of all, modern.
Autoren-Porträt von Rachel Cooke
Rachel Cooke was born in Sheffield. And award-winning journalist, she writes for The Observer, and is the television critic of the New Statesman.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Rachel Cooke
- 2013, 304 Seiten, Maße: 16,5 x 23,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- ISBN-10: 1844087409
- ISBN-13: 9781844087402
- Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2013
Sprache:
Englisch
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Rachel Cooke shines a new light in an elegantly original way into the 1950s and especially into the role of women therein. By cleverly focussing on the lives of several extraordinary woman, she manages to produce a social history which is highly absorbing and richly informative. A very enjoyable and distinctive book -- Kate Atkinson
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