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

ISBN-13: 9781848933101 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 250 str.

Ali Haggett

Opis

The historical association between femininity and neurosis is well documented. Many recent studies have seen women's mental health issues in the aftermath of the Second World War as being a direct consequence of a lack of opportunity and the banality of a domestic lifestyle. Although the figure of the 'desperate housewife' is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and 1960s led satisfying lives and that gender roles, while very different, were often seen as equal.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Haggett, Ali