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Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes de Virginia Nicholson

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes

Autor Virginia Nicholson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 mar 2016

Folosind ca bază de date interviuri directe și cercetări de arhivă, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes oferă o perspectivă riguroasă asupra vieții feminine în Marea Britanie a anilor '50. Apreciem modul în care Virginia Nicholson reușește să străpungă stratul de lac al reclamelor epocii — cel al gospodinei zâmbitoare în șorț curat — pentru a revela o realitate marcată de tensiuni profunde. Găsim în această carte o documentare metodică a unei perioade de tranziție, situată cronologic între austeritatea postbelică și revoluția culturală a deceniului următor.

Textul este structurat pentru a evidenția contrastul dintre „promisiunea” unei vieți domestice perfecte, dotate cu plastic colorat și prăjituri de casă, și limitările legislative sau sociale drastice, unde divorțul era un scandal, iar controlul asupra propriei reproduceri era aproape inexistent. Comparabil cu It's the 1950s de Judith Forsythe în analiza rolurilor de gen, volumul de față se distinge prin rigoarea academică specifică unei cercetătoare BBC și prin profunzimea detaliilor despre „partea întunecată” a deceniului, inclusiv amenințarea Războiului Rece.

Această lucrare consolidează poziția autoarei ca istoric social de marcă, continuând temele explorate în Singled Out și Millions Like Us. Dacă lucrările anterioare se concentrau pe impactul conflagrațiilor mondiale asupra destinelor feminine, Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes analizează modul în care femeile au navigat pacea aparentă a anilor '50, pregătind terenul pentru schimbările radicale pe care Virginia Nicholson le va documenta ulterior în How Was It For You?. Ritmul narativ este alert, susținut de mărturii autentice care transformă datele istorice într-o experiență de lectură imersivă.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780241958049
ISBN-10: 0241958040
Pagini: 560
Dimensiuni: 126 x 198 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie socială și studii de gen care doresc să înțeleagă realitatea din spatele mitului „gospodinei perfecte”. Veți câștiga o perspectivă nuanțată asupra anilor '50, înțelegând cum constrângerile acelei perioade au modelat generațiile actuale. Este o lectură esențială pentru a vedea cum supraviețuirea cotidiană, dragostea și lupta pentru demnitate s-au desfășurat într-o lume care cerea conformitate absolută.

Despre autor

Virginia Nicholson s-a născut în Newcastle-upon-Tyne și s-a format academic la Universitatea Cambridge. Cu o experiență vastă ca cercetător de documentare pentru televiziunea BBC, Nicholson și-a dedicat cariera recuperării istoriei invizibile a femeilor. Provenind dintr-o familie cu o moștenire culturală impresionantă — este nepoata pictoriței Vanessa Bell și strănepoata scriitoarei Virginia Woolf — ea a debutat explorând universul de la Charleston. Ulterior, s-a impus ca unul dintre cei mai importanți istorici sociali contemporani, specializându-se în analiza transformărilor societății britanice de-a lungul secolului XX prin experiența feminină directă.

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. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 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

Virginia Nicholson gets us closer than we have ever been before to the complicated day-to-day reality of women's lives during that still controversial decade, the 1950s
Nicholson handles her material with confidence, sympathy and, ultimately, optimism that for most women things have improved, so that the abiding emotion is not gloom but, in my case, admiration for my mother's generation and gratitude that it was so much better for ours
Nicholson uses vivid contemporary sources and oral testimony to show the constraints under which so many women lived. Like David Kynaston's Family Britain . . . Nicholson has the same knack of seamlessly piecing gripping individual stories into a panorama of ordinary life
An important and humane book of female social history . . . In this work, Nicholson musters voices to profound and deeply political effect. Much of the material in this book will be familiar to women over 55: we were born into this world. For younger women, though, Nicholson's book should be necessary reading, to remind them how far we have travelled.
An uplifting and heartwarming read
Nicholson spells out the contradictions of this era so well: a new world dressed in old clothes
Remarkable. To today's young, it'll sound like life on another planet
The achievements of the women in this book haunt us and move us to admiration
Insightful social history. Mixing research with a wealth of anecdote, Nicholson brings history to vivid and touching life
Poignantly illustrates how the women of the 1950s yearned for the innovative technology of the era to liberate them from repetitive drudgery
Indefatigably researched, moving and perceptive, Nicholson handles her wide-ranging material with sympathy, humour and a lightness of touch. Her enviable gift for interpretation and storytelling is balanced by first-hand accounts of those women of the 1950s, their youth so relatively recent, who have trusted her with the intimate details of their lives
There is certainly warmth in [Virginia Nicholson's] curiosity as she delves into the stories of her mother's generation . . . Nicholson's judgements are rightly and often amusingly sharp . . . Her skill as an interviewer leaves her subjects revealing long-kept secrets and her flair as a writer makes us care about these young women and what happens to them
Richly detailed. We hear from women working as air hostesses, housewives, biscuit packers, prostitutes, academics, models, secretaries and Buttlin's Redcoats. We discover how women felt entering beatuty contests, having to give up work on marriage, being defined by their husband's jobs, becomming unmarried mothers, enduring racism, marching against nuclear weapons and desiring other women. Nicholson's own commentary, in turns compassionate and wry, holds everything together
A fascinating look at the lives of ordinary women in 1950s Britain
Meticulously researched
A ground-breaking book, richly nuanced with titbits of information, insight and understanding
Remarkably perceptive and well-researched . . . Virginia Nicholson has produced another extraordinarily interesting work, sensitive, intelligent and well-written
An inspiring book, lovingly researched, well-written and humane . . . the period is beautifully caught
The popular image is of a world where women wore little frilled pinafores with immaculately coiffed hair and happy smiles as they dusted, swept and baked . . . But Nicholson's book reveals a much darker side of life
Gripping, constantly surprising: a page-turner. We hear at first hand the life stories of women from different walks of life, from factory workers to debs. Each story draws you right in and it's always a wrench to move on

Descriere scurtă

In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes, Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm.

 Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a world peopled by women with radiant smiles, clean pinafores and gleaming coiffures; a promised land of batch-baking, maraschino cherries and brightly hued plastic. A world where the darker side of the decade encompassed rampant prostitution, a notorious murder, and the threat of nuclear disaster.

Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it. Step back in time to when our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled.

This is their story.