How Was It For You?
Autor Virginia Nicholsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 mar 2020
Remarcăm, în structura acestui volum, o reconstrucție metodică a anilor '60 prin intermediul unor studii de caz individuale: poveștile lui Mavis, Kristina, Patsy, Mary și Caroline. Aceste mărturii servesc drept puncte de ancorare pentru o analiză profundă a modului în care „revoluția” a afectat concret viața femeilor. În timp ce narațiunea istorică standard pune accent pe explorarea spațială și utopiile masculine, How Was It For You? investighează zonele de umbră: lupta pentru egalitatea salarială, impactul pilulei și persistența misoginiei în plină eră hippie. Putem afirma că Virginia Nicholson reușește să submineze ipotezele complacente despre acea decadă, oferind o perspectivă neîndulcită asupra a ceea ce însemna cu adevărat eliberarea pentru o generație prinsă între mănușile albe de debutantă și mișcarea „Black is Beautiful”. Cartea acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Impossible to Hold, dar cu o abordare mai axată pe istoria socială britanică și pe diversitatea de clasă, nu doar pe cultura americană de consum. Virginia Nicholson își consolidează aici proiectul început în Millions Like Us și Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, mutând reflectorul de la sacrificiile războiului și conformismul anilor '50 către turbulențele anilor '60. Este un volum de peste 500 de pagini care funcționează ca o arhivă a vocilor uitate, documentând tranziția dureroasă de la obiectificarea femeii la afirmarea identității de sine.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0241975182
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 158 x 353 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
De ce să citești această carte
Această carte se adresează celor interesați de istoria socială și de evoluția mișcărilor feministe. Cititorul câștigă o înțelegere nuanțată a anilor '60, dincolo de clișeele despre „peace and love”. Este un motiv concret de lectură pentru oricine dorește să descopere cum s-au transformat normele morale și sociale din perspectiva celor care au trăit aceste schimbări la prima mână, într-o perioadă în care egalitatea era abia un concept emergent.
Despre autor
Virginia Nicholson, născută în Newcastle-upon-Tyne și educată la Universitatea Cambridge, este recunoscută ca unul dintre cei mai importanți istorici sociali contemporani. Provenind dintr-o familie cu o moștenire culturală impresionantă — fiind nepoata pictoriței Vanessa Bell și strănepoata scriitoarei Virginia Woolf — ea și-a dedicat cariera recuperării istoriei femeilor. După ce a lucrat ca cercetător documentarist pentru BBC, a publicat Charleston, urmat de o serie de volume aclamate despre impactul marilor evenimente istorice asupra vieții cotidiene feminine, transformând cercetarea academică în narațiuni accesibile și vibrante.
Notă biografică
Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex, and studied at Cambridge University. She lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for the BBC. Her books include the acclaimed social histories Among the Bohemians, Singled Out, Millions Like Us, and Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes. She is married with three grown-up children and lives in Sussex.
Recenzii
They say that if you remember the 1960s you weren't really there. But if you really weren't, then the next best thing is to read this fascinating book. With the meticulous attention worthy of a Vidal Sassoon haircut, Virginia Nicholson has shaped her dazzling kaleidoscope of facts, feelings and observations, into a razor-sharp account of the women who lived through that tumultuous decade
Essential reading for all those who lived through it, and for those who came after
Intimate, immersive, often moving, How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade
How Was It For You? brings it all back. As always Virginia Nicholson's book is full of fascinating history and fascinating new material. It makes it feel like the Sixties have never been away, which they never have been, as far as I'm concerned. Wonderful
A hugely ambitious, kaleidoscope of a book, written in a sympathetic but also hard-headed tone that captures squalor and tragedy as well as glamour
Virginia Nicholson's social history of the lives of women during the 1960s is an absorbing study of an extraordinary age. Beautifully written and intensively researched, it covers a wide range of characters and many levels of society, uncovering with remarkable perspicacity a world of rebellion and change. I am sure How Was It for You? will remain a vital study for many years to come
Written with verve, wit and empathy, this account of the 1960s skilfully interweaves the lives of individual women with broader social and cultural changes. Virginia Nicholson nudges the reader to reconsider the well- beaten tracks and to reflect upon out-of-the-way experiences. Best of all How Was It For You? neither idealises nor excoriates the bouncy, controversial decade
Every baby boomer should read this great and wonderfully revelatory book if only to shout, 'Ah yes, that's exactly what it was like for me!'
For those of us who missed the 60's, Virginia Nicholson catapults this era to roaring, authentic life. Rich with intimate voices and a keen edged analysis of the public perceptions at work, this book brilliantly evokes the struggle between the urgent change and the heavily freighted forces of tradition that defined this singularly compelling decade. Read it. It is unputdownable
A tremendous achievement... a triumph of research and organisation - but also of sympathy
An important and humane book of female social history
A ground-breaking book, richly nuanced with titbits of information, insight and understanding
Virginia Nicholson is the outstanding recorder of British lives in the twentieth century. She has told us how it was for British women - and therefore of course for men and children - in the twentieth century. The formidable research and sympathetic understanding of so many different lives make this account of the 1960s - that swinging, sexy, revolutionary decade - the most vivid and moving of all her works. A fascinating decade, a fascinating book
I loved this. Yes, the 1960s were good fun, sometimes. But Virginia Nicholson forensically unpicks what "promiscuity" really meant for flower-chicks, fearful of seeming un-cool. They were perpetuating a society as patriarchal and phallocentric as ever - even in the counter-culture. I was there, and she's right. Amazingly right about so many things. Roll on the 1970s when things did change - but that's for another of her excellent books
Sparklingly readable . . . Having read Nicholson's magisterial and sensuous overview of the decade, I feel I'm floating above the Sixties (a bit like Lucy in the Sky) and looking down on them with a new understanding
The stories are terrific
This vivid comprehensive study brought so many memories flooding back to me! It's a treat for those of us who were around in the sixties, and delightfully instructive for those who weren't
Sparkling . . . there is a wonderfully diverse range of voices . . . we have a long way to go, but reading this book made me grateful for how far we have come
Descriere
'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman
'How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade' David Kynaston
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"A feeling that we could do whatever we liked swept through us in the 60s . . ."
The sixties: a decade of space travel, utopian dreams and - above all - sexual revolution. It liberated a generation. But mostly men.
Meet dollybird Mavis, debutante Kristina, bunny girl Patsy, industrial campaigner Mary and countercultural Caroline. From Carnaby Street to Merseyside, white gloves to Black is Beautiful, their stories illustrate a turbulent power struggle, throwing an unsparing spotlight on morals, drugs, race, bomb culture and sex.
This is a moving, shocking book about tearing up the world and starting again. It's about peace, love and psychedelia, but also misogyny, violation and discrimination, in a decade discovering a new cause: equality.
And women would never be the same again.
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'Sparkling . . . there is a wonderfully diverse range of voices . . . we have a long way to go, but reading this book made me grateful for how far we have come' Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday Times
'An absorbing study of an extraordinary age. Beautifully written and intensively researched' Selina Hastings