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| 1950 good housewife guide: A 1950s Housewife Sheila Hardy, 2015-10-05 A nostalgic look at what it was like to be a housewife in the 1950sBeing a housewife in the 1950s was quite different than today. Women were expected to create a spotless home, delicious meals, and an inviting bedroom. From the perils of courting to the inevitable list of wedding gifts to the household tips that any self-respecting new wife should know, this book collects heartwarming personal anecdotes from women who embarked on married life during this fascinating post-war period, providing a trip down memory lane for any wife or child of the 1950s. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: How to Be the Perfect 1950s Housewife Biff Raven-Hill, 2016-04-19 The perfect 1950s Housewife: glamorous, motherly, doting, supportive, flirty yet wholesome, endlessly cheerful...To the modern woman this all seems rather terrifying (and frankly a little nauseating). There's nothing like a glamorous, high-heeled mother at the school gates to make the rest of us feel like overweight, ill-tempered, soup-stained slatterns. And yet those marvels of 1950s femininity seemed to manage to be effortlessly lovely at every turn. This book guides you through the crazy golf course of fashion, beauty, home skills, child rearing, lino-laying, husband pleasing and general marital bliss.And if, at the end of this extraordinary journey of enlightenment, you have any questions or nagging doubts, you need only consult 'The Wireless Doctor', who can help with anything from naughty children, stroppy husbands, or 'intimate' neglect. Grab yourself a cocktail and a cheese straw and bury your nose in this glorious guide that will have you apologising to your mother for the rest of your life. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Recipe for a Perfect Wife Karma Brown, 2019-12-31 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PENGUIN BOOK CLUB PICK Recipe for a Perfect Wife is a bold, intoxicating, page-turner. Karma Brown has long been a favorite of mine and this book is proof she just keeps getting better and better. This is a thrilling, audacious story about women daring to take control.--Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Daisy Jones and the Six When Alice Hale reluctantly leaves a promising career in publicity, following her husband to the New York suburbs, she is unaccustomed to filling her days alone in a big, empty house. However, she is determined to become a writer--and to work hard to build the kind of life her husband dreams of, complete with children. At first, the old house seems to resent Alice as much as she resents it, but when she finds an old cookbook buried in a box in the basement, she becomes captivated by the cookbook's previous owner: 1950s housewife Nellie Murdoch. As Alice cooks her way through the past, she begins to settle into her new surroundings, even as her friends and family grow concerned that she has embraced them too fully: wearing vintage dresses and pearls like a 1950s housewife, making elaborate old-fashioned dishes like Baked Alaska, and drifting steadily away from her usual pursuits. Alice justifies the changes merely as research for her novel...but when she discovers that Nellie left clues about her own life within the cookbook's pages--and in a mysterious series of unsent letters penned to Nellie's mother--she quickly realizes that the housewife's secrets may have been anything but harmless. As she uncovers a more sinister side to Nellie's marriage and with pressure mounting in her own relationship, Alice realizes that to protect herself she must harbour and hatch a few secrets of her own... |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Don'ts for Wives Blanche Ebbutt, 2007-06-25 The companion to Don'ts for Husbands, this book is a replica edition of the original book published by A&C Black in 1913 England, containing hundreds of snippets of entertaining advice for a happy marriage, which rings true almost one hundred years after they were written. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: How to Be a Good Wife Bodleian Library, 2008 Don't think that your wife has placed waste-paper baskets in the rooms as ornaments. Don't forget that very true remark that while face powder may catch a man, baking powder is the stuff to hold him. Marriage can be a series of humorous miscommunications, a power struggle, or a diplomatic nightmare. Men and women have long struggled to figure each other out--and the misunderstandings can continue well after they've been joined in matrimony. But long before Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, couples turned to self-help booklets such as How to Be a GoodHusband and How to Be a Good Wife, two historic advice books that are now delightfully reproduced by the Bodleian Library. The books, originally published in the 1930s for middle-class British couples, are filled with witty and charming aphorisms on how wives and husbands should treat each other. Some advice is unquestionably outdated--It is a wife's duty to look her best. If you don't tidy yourself up, don't be surprised if your husband begins to compare you unfavorably with the typist at the office--but many other pieces of advice are wholly applicable today. They include such insightful sayings as: Don't tell your wife terminological inexactitudes, which are, in plain English, lies. A woman has wonderful intuition for spotting even minor departures from the truth; After all is said and done, husbands are not terribly difficult to manage; or Don't squeeze the tube of toothpaste from the top instead of from the bottom. This is one of the small things of life that always irritates a careful wife. Entertaining and charmingly illustrated, How to Be a Good Husband and How to Be a Good Wife offer enduringly useful advice for all couples, from the newly engaged to those celebrating their golden anniversary. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Good Wife's Guide (Le Ménagier de Paris) , 2012-09-15 In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her husband, a wealthy, aging Parisian. The book was designed to teach this young wife the moral attributes, duties, and conduct befitting a woman of her station in society, in the almost certain event of her widowhood and subsequent remarriage. The work also provides a rich assembly of practical materials for the wife's use and for her household, including treatises on gardening and shopping, tips on choosing servants, directions on the medical care of horses and the training of hawks, plus menus for elaborate feasts, and more than 380 recipes. The Good Wife's Guide is the first complete modern English translation of this important medieval text also known as Le Ménagier de Paris (the Parisian household book), a work long recognized for its unique insights into the domestic life of the bourgeoisie during the later Middle Ages. The Good Wife's Guide, expertly rendered into modern English by Gina L. Greco and Christine M. Rose, is accompanied by an informative critical introduction setting the work in its proper medieval context as a conduct manual. This edition presents the book in its entirety, as it must have existed for its earliest readers. The Guide is now a treasure for the classroom, appealing to anyone studying medieval literature or history or considering the complex lives of medieval women. It illuminates the milieu and composition process of medieval authors and will in turn fascinate cooking or horticulture enthusiasts. The work illustrates how a (perhaps fictional) Parisian householder of the late fourteenth century might well have trained his wife so that her behavior could reflect honorably on him and enhance his reputation. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Classic Household Hints Susan Waggoner, 2014-10-31 An illustrated, nostalgic how-to guide to achieving a clean, organized, and happy home—with over 500 retro tips and tricks! Return your household to the simpler times of yesteryear with this delightful guide full of time- and money-saving tips on everything from cleaning and organizing your home to buying and handling food. Even in an age of endless new household products and devices, these old-fashioned, tried-and-true methods can help any homeowner keep a cleaner, happier home. A thoroughly researched compendium of the best American home life tips from the 1920s through the ’60s, Classic Household Hints is filled with useful information, full-color illustrations, fascinating sidebars, and quotes—providing practical help as well as fun for housekeepers and neat freaks everywhere. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Good Wife's Guide Darlene Schacht, 2012-01-13 In The Good Wife's Guide New York Times best-selling author Darlene Schacht encourages women to joyfully serve their families. In doing so she offers reasons for achieving a well-managed home backed by scripture and gleaned from experience. As well she provides readers with detailed cleaning and organizing schedules for practical application. The Good Wife's Guide encourages women to make faith and family their first priorities from a place of sacrificial love. It reminds women that they were created with a specific purpose in mind, which is that of being a help meet. In supporting our husbands and living in unity we reflect God's blueprint for marriage. If you like books on organization and housekeeping, this book is for you! |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes Virginia Nicholson, 2016 'Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes' reconstructs the real 1950s, through the eyes of the women who lived it. Step back in time to where our grandmothers scrubbed their doorsteps, cared for their families, lived, laughed, loved and struggled. This is their story. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands Dr. Laura Schlessinger, 2009-03-17 The #1 National Bestseller In her most provocative book yet, America's top radio talk show host, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, urgently reminds women that to take proper care of their husbands is to ensure themselves the happiness and satisfaction they deserve in marriage. Women want to be in love, get married and live happily ever after, yet countless women call Dr. Laura, unhappy in their marriages and seemingly at a loss to understand the incredible power they have over their men to create the kind of home life they yearn for. In the Proper Care and Feeding of Husbands, Dr. Laura provides real-life examples and real-life solutions on how to wield that power to attain all the sexual pleasure, intimacy, love, joy, and peace desired in life. Dr. Laura's simple principles have changed the lives of millions. Now they can change yours. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Fascinating Womanhood Helen B. Andelin, 1974 The author presents her views on how a woman can have a happy marriage through an understanding of her feminine role, submission to her husband, and the fostering of a childlike response to anger and other situations. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway, 2010-08-05 A mother-daughter story about the strong pull of tradition, and the lure and cost of breaking free of it. When Shoko decided to marry an American GI and leave Japan, she had her parents' blessing, her brother's scorn, and a gift from her husband-a book on how to be a proper American housewife. As she crossed the ocean to America, Shoko also brought with her a secret she would need to keep her entire life... Half a century later, Shoko's plans to finally return to Japan and reconcile with her brother are derailed by illness. In her place, she sends her grown American daughter, Sue, a divorced single mother whose own life isn't what she hoped for. As Sue takes in Japan, with all its beauty and contradictions, she discovers another side to her mother and returns to America unexpectedly changed and irrevocably touched. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: How to be Married Jo Piazza, 2017 At age thirty-four, Jo Piazza got her romantic-comedy ending when she met the man of her dreams on a boat in the Galápagos Islands and was engaged three months later. But before long, Jo found herself riddled with questions. How do you make a marriage work in a world where you no longer need to be married? How does an independent, strong-willed feminist become someone's partner -- all the time? Journalist and author Jo Piazza writes a memoir of a real first year of marriage that will forever change the way we look at matrimony. A travel editor constantly on the move, Jo journeys to twenty countries on five continents to figure out what modern marriage means. Throughout this personal narrative, she gleans wisdom from matrilineal tribeswomen, French ladies who lunch, Orthodox Jewish moms, Swedish stay-at-home dads, polygamous warriors, and Dutch prostitutes. How to Be Married offers an honest portrait of a couple. When life throws more at them than they ever expected -- a terrifying health diagnosis, sick parents to care for, unemployment -- they ultimately create a fresh understanding of what it means to be equal partners during the good and bad times. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The 1950s American Home Diane Boucher, 2013-06-10 Modern living began with the homes of the 1950s. Casting aside the privations of the Second World War, American architects embraced the must-have mod-cons: they wrapped fitted kitchens around fridges, washing machines, dishwashers and electric ovens, gave televisions pride of place in the living room, and built integrated garages for enormous space-age cars. So why was this change so radical? In what ways did life change for people moving into these swanky new homes, and why has the legacy of the 1950s home endured for so long? Diane Boucher answers these questions and more in this colorful introduction to the homes that embody the golden age of modern design. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: A 1950s Mother Sheila Hardy, 2013-03-01 Embarking on motherhood was a very different affair in the 1950s to what it is today. From how to dress baby (matinee coats and bonnets) to how to administer feeds (strictly four-hourly if following the Truby King method), the childrearing methods of the 1950s are a fascinating insight into the lives of women in that decade. In A 1950s Mother, author, mother and grandmother Sheila Hardy collects heart-warming, personal anecdotes from those women who became mothers during this fascinating post-war period. From the benefits of 'crying it out' and being put out in the garden to gripe water and Listen with Mother, the wisdom of mothers from the 1950s reverberates down the decades to young mothers of any generation and is a hilarious and, at times, poignant trip down memory lane for any mother or child of the 1950s. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: How to Be the Perfect Housewife Anthea Turner, 2007 With tips on everything from decluttering to dry cleaning, storage solutions to spring cleaning, dinner parties to brunches, this is an indispensable guide to obtaining a beautiful, clean and comfortable home to be truly proud of. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: America's Women Gail Collins, 2004 From the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs, America's Women tells the story of how women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America. Spanning wars, the pioneering days, the fight for suffrage, the Depression, the era of Rosie the Riveter, the civil rights movement, and the feminist rebellion of the 1970s, this book describes the way women's lives were altered by dress fashions, medical advances, rules of hygiene, social theories about sex and courtship, and the ever-changing attitudes toward education, work, and politics. While keeping her eye on the big picture, Gail Collins still notes that corsets and uncomfortable shoes mattered a lot too. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Family Nobody Wanted Helen Doss, 2014-12-01 Doss's charming, touching, and at times hilarious chronicle tells how each of the children, representing white, Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Mexican, and Native American backgrounds, came to her and husband Carl, a Methodist minister. She writes of the way the unwanted feeling was erased with devoted love and understanding and how the children united into one happy family. Her account reads like a novel, with scenes of hard times and triumphs described in vivid prose. The Family Nobody Wanted, which inspired two films, opened doors for other adoptive families and was a popular favorite among parents, young adults, and children for more than thirty years. Now this edition will introduce the classic to a new generation of readers. An epilogue by Helen Doss that updates the family's progress since 1954 will delight the book's loyal legion of fans around the world. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Stepford Wives Ira Levin, 2011-04-26 The internationally bestselling novel by the author of A Kiss Before Dying, The Boys from Brazil, and Rosemary's Baby With an Introduction by Peter Straub For Joanna, her husband, Walter, and their children, the move to beautiful Stepford seems almost too good to be true. It is. For behind the town's idyllic facade lies a terrible secret -- a secret so shattering that no one who encounters it will ever be the same. At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Home Comforts Cheryl Mendelson, 2005-05-17 Home Comforts is something new. For the first time in nearly a century, a sole author has written a comprehensive book about housekeeping. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Home Economics Jennifer Mcknight Trontz, 2014-05-13 Revisit the home-economics textbooks of yore to get the best vintage advice on shopping, cooking, decorating, and budgeting your way to a happy, healthy household “Housekeeping is becoming more and more a matter of science, and the laurels are bound to fall to the woman who conducts her household in a business-like way.” Let the thrifty sensibility of yesteryear be your guide as you shop for the most economical foods, choose wall colors scientifically, clean with natural products, look your best without breaking the bank, and budget your way to frugal efficiency. In this amazing collection of clever wisdom and practical advice drawn from vintage home-economics textbooks, you’ll find everything you need to get back to basics and run a healthy and happy household. Home Economics covers all the categories of delightful domesticity: • Health & Hygiene • Cookery & Recipes • Manners & Etiquette • Design & Decoration • Cleaning & Safety • Gardening & Crafts Rediscover the art and science of keeping house—economically! |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Ladies' Book of Etiquette Florence Hartley, 2017-03-17 This charmingly instructive 1860 guide offers timeless advice for proper behavior in every situation, from traveling abroad and hosting a dinner party to choosing clothes and attending a wedding. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Secret History of Home Economics: How Trailblazing Women Harnessed the Power of Home and Changed the Way We Live Danielle Dreilinger, 2021-05-04 Deeply researched and crisply written. —Margaret Talbot,?The New Yorker The surprising, often fiercely feminist, always fascinating, yet barely known, history of home economics. The term “home economics” may conjure traumatic memories of lopsided hand-sewn pillows or sunken muffins. But common conception obscures the story of the revolutionary science of better living. The field exploded opportunities for women in the twentieth century by reducing domestic work and providing jobs as professors, engineers, chemists, and businesspeople. And it has something to teach us today. In the surprising, often fiercely feminist and always fascinating The Secret History of Home Economics, Danielle Dreilinger traces the field’s history from Black colleges to Eleanor Roosevelt to Okinawa, from a Betty Crocker brigade to DIY techies. These women—and they were mostly women—became chemists and marketers, studied nutrition, health, and exercise, tested parachutes, created astronaut food, and took bold steps in childhood development and education. Home economics followed the currents of American culture even as it shaped them. Dreilinger brings forward the racism within the movement along with the strides taken by women of color who were influential leaders and innovators. She also looks at the personal lives of home economics’ women, as they chose to be single, share lives with other women, or try for egalitarian marriages. This groundbreaking and engaging history restores a denigrated subject to its rightful importance, as it reminds us that everyone should learn how to cook a meal, balance their account, and fight for a better world. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Homecraft Book Ann Hathaway, 2015-08-04 First published in 1945, this book is a compendium of advice across a myriad of subjects for the post-war woman, wife and mother. By times hilarious, by times disconcerting but always entertaining, it offers bite-sized ampoules of advice on the subjects of house, health, beauty and dress.Press for The Homecraft BookThe Examiner: a handbook for saving the planetyou'll have the price of the book paid back in no timea right good readWoman's WayVintage adviceThe Irish Times Online Book ReviewsThink life was easier in 1945? ... discover a world of congested scalps, swollen knuckles and furred kettlesToday with Sean O'Rourke, RTE Radio 1Fascinating and FunI love this woman's approachI was really impressed...the more I read, the more I enjoyed it.Some of the ideas really did work.She holds her ownsimple but ingeniousentertaining and great fun to try them out |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Home-Ec 101 Heather Solos, 2011-04-01 Real Skills for Real Life From keeping your home clean and in good repair to preparing your own food, self-sufficiency rocks. Having an understanding of the domestic arts gives you a sense of control over your life. These skills also help you save money, not by chasing deals, but by teaching the principle of the mantra: Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without. Life skills are the essence of frugality. Whether you just moved out of your parent's basement or you cut the apron strings a while ago, you'll learn the skills you need to manage your household. Inside you?ll find: Quick, easy cleaning solutions for every room of the house, so you can get the job done and get on with life Instructions for removing stubborn stains and offensive odors from fabric Simple fixes to wardrobe malfunctions including broken zippers, missing buttons, and fallen hemlines Troubleshooting advice for common problems with home appliances A minimum home maintenance guide to prevent or catch major repair problems A basic plumbing tutorial that includes clearing and preventing clogs, stopping a running toilet and retrieving items dropped down a drain Ideas for healthy and fast meal planning so you can start cooking and stop relying on takeout or preservative-packed convenience food Definitions of common cooking terms and techniques found in recipes Plans for stocking a pantry so you can make dinner (even if you haven't been grocery shopping in a week) and be prepared when disaster strikes A complete rundown of essential kitchen equipment from knives to pans to small appliances Equip yourself with the skills you need for everyday life. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Defying expectations: A housewife guide to financial empowerment. Renu Singhal Gupta, 2024-03-29 The Book is about her journey as a homemaker to an investor. Through her book she wants to inspire women and especially homemakers to invest and have their savings grow. She has tried to make the steps to investment as simple as possible. Being from finance herself she knows the financial jargon is difficult to understand. Her book is based on reviewing a lot of articles already existing on stocks and her own personal experiences in this field. Through her attempt she wants to be able to give a twist to the word Homemaker which should include anything she wants to be while continuing to take care of her home and family. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: American Housewife Helen Ellis, 2016-10-18 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “A raucous, whip-smart collection of stories featuring retro-feminist ladies who lunch.” —Elle Meet the women of American Housewife. They wear lipstick, pearls, and sunscreen, even when it’s cloudy. They casserole. They pinwheel. And then they kill a party crasher, carefully stepping around the body to pull cookies from the oven. Taking us from a haunted pre-war Manhattan apartment building to the unique initiation ritual of a book club, these twelve delightfully demented stories are a refreshing and wicked answer to the question: “What do housewives do all day?” |
| 1950 good housewife guide: She-manners Robert H. Loeb, 1959 Informal re-telling of the charm story--how to be more attractive, how to manage dates, how to dress, and how to solve a number of problems confronting the young miss of today. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Betty Crocker's Guide to Easy Entertaining, Facsimile Edition Betty Crocker, 2008-08-25 This authentic facsimile of the 1959 entertaining guide brings beloved memories from Betty Crocker history in a new concealed-wiro format. Tried and true recipes: They may have been invented in the '50s, but these recipes have withstood the test of time. Vichyssoise, Parmesan Oven-Fried Chicken, Baked Alaska Angel Food Cake, Stuffed Leg of Lamb, Gourmet Potato Salad, Herb Batter Bread, Gay Nineties Charlotte Russe, and Mulled Cider, and Brownie Peppermint Pie all have plenty of appeal today. The real thing! A primer on 1950s-style entertaining: Dinners and buffets, after-dinner coffee, stag parties, midnight suppers, dessert-and-coffee, barbecues, brunch, and potlucks. A charming snapshot of that era, with its rules of etiquette, turns of phrase, and recipes, such as: * When is the telephone best for invitations? * When Guests Arrive * When Guests Leave * How to serve a small dinner for up to six people * How to organize a coffee service * How to host an afternoon tea |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Into the Deep Abigail Favale, 2024-06-20 Into the Deep traces one woman's spiritual odyssey from birthright evangelicalism through postmodern feminism and, ultimately, into the Roman Catholic Church. As a college student, Abigail Favale experienced a feminist awakening that reshaped her life and faith. A decade later, on the verge of atheism, she found herself entering the oldest male-helmed institution on the planet--the last place she expected to be. With humor and insight, Favale describes her gradual exodus from Christian orthodoxy and surprising swerve into Catholicism. She writes candidly about grappling with wounds from her past, Catholic sexual morality, the male priesthood, and an interfaith marriage. Her vivid prose brings to life the wrenching tumult of conversion--a conversion that began after she entered the Church and began to pry open its mysteries. There she discovered the startling beauty of a sacramental cosmos, a vision of reality that upended her notions of gender, sexuality, identity, and authority. This is a thoroughly 21st century conversion, a compelling account of recovering an ancient faith after a decade of doubt. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Total Woman Marabel Morgan, 1990-09 |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Modern Family Cookbook Modern Family, 2015-09-22 From the hit television phenomenon Modern Family comes an unconventional cookbook that invites you into the kitchen with the characters you know and love. Packed with more than 100 mouthwatering recipes, The Modern Family Cookbook teaches you how to make Phil's Traditional First-Day-of-School Pancakes (don't forget the whipped cream smile!), Claire's Spooky Pumpkin Cheese Ball with Crudités, Mitchell's PB & J (pear, brie, and jambon) Sandwiches, Jay's Sloppy Jay's, Gloria's Carnitas al Diablo, and other delicious dishes. From Haley's forty cupcakes to Lily's first taste of pho, and all the family dinners in between, the show's most memorable moments come to life in a recipe collection that will please fans and foodies alike. Of course, family meals aren't just about eating. The Modern Family Cookbook also features some of the Dunphy-Tucker-Pritchett clan's most hilarious moments. Find out if you're a parent or a peer-ent and what to do when house guests overstay their welcome. Discover Lily's diva tips, Manny's love poems, and Jay's childhood recipe for the perfect mom. Ever wondered what it looks like inside Phil Dunphy's brain? Open this book to find out. Combining bright color photographs, crowdpleasing flavors, and a generous dose of humor, The Modern Family Cookbook celebrates the chaos and comedy of the kitchen table. Come for the food, stay for the fun. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Women's Room Marilyn French, 2009 |
| 1950 good housewife guide: You Play The Girl Carina Chocano, 2017-08-08 We all know who The Girl is. She holds The Hero's hand as he runs through the Pyramids, chasing robots. Or she nags him, or foils him, plays the uptight straight man to his charming loser. She's idealised, degraded, dismissed, objectified and almost always dehumanised. How do we process these insidious portrayals, and how do they shape our sense of who we are and what we can become? Part memoir, part cultural commentary, part call to arms to women everywhere, You Play The Girl flips the perspective on the past thirty-five years in pop culture - from the progressive 70s, through the backlash 80s, the triumphalist 90s and the pornified 'bro culture' of the early twenty-first century - providing a firsthand chronicle of the experience of growing up inside this funhouse. Always incisive, Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more iterative than we think, and certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Way We Really Are Stephanie Coontz, 1997-04-03 Some problems associated with these changes, Coontz explains, come from economic and cultural forces beyond the family; others exist not because our families have changed too much but because our institutions and values haven't changed enough. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Feminine Mystique Betty Friedan, 1965 This novel was the major inspiration for the Women's Movement and continues to be a powerful and illuminating analysis of the position of women in Western society___ |
| 1950 good housewife guide: The Smart Wife Yolande Strengers, Jenny Kennedy, 2021-08-31 The life and times of the Smart Wife--feminized digital assistants who are friendly and sometimes flirty, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. Meet the Smart Wife--at your service, an eclectic collection of feminized AI, robotic, and smart devices. This digital assistant is friendly and sometimes flirty, docile and efficient, occasionally glitchy but perpetually available. She might go by Siri, or Alexa, or inhabit Google Home. She can keep us company, order groceries, vacuum the floor, turn out the lights. A Japanese digital voice assistant--a virtual anime hologram named Hikari Azuma--sends her master helpful messages during the day; an American sexbot named Roxxxy takes on other kinds of household chores. In The Smart Wife, Yolande Strengers and Jenny Kennedy examine the emergence of digital devices that carry out wifework--domestic responsibilities that have traditionally fallen to (human) wives. They show that the principal prototype for these virtual helpers--designed in male-dominated industries--is the 1950s housewife: white, middle class, heteronormative, and nurturing, with a spick-and-span home. It's time, they say, to give the Smart Wife a reboot. What's wrong with preferring domestic assistants with feminine personalities? We like our assistants to conform to gender stereotypes--so what? For one thing, Strengers and Kennedy remind us, the design of gendered devices re-inscribes those outdated and unfounded stereotypes. Advanced technology is taking us backwards on gender equity. Strengers and Kennedy offer a Smart Wife manifesta, proposing a rebooted Smart Wife that would promote a revaluing of femininity in society in all her glorious diversity. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Language, Gender and Feminism Sara Mills, Louise Mullany, 2011-05-09 Language, Gender and Feminism presents students and researchers with key contemporary theoretical perspectives, methodologies and analytical frameworks in the field of feminist linguistic analysis. Mills and Mullany cover a wide range of contemporary feminist theories and emphasise the importance of an interdisciplinary approach. Topics covered include: power, language and sexuality, sexism and an exploration of the difference between second and third wave feminist analysis. Each chapter presents examples from research conducted in different cultural and linguistic contexts which allows students to observe practical applications of all current theories and approaches. Throughout oral and written language data, from a wealth of different contexts, settings and sources, is thoroughly analysed. The book concludes with a discussion of how the field could advance and a overview of the various research methods, pertinent for future work in language and gender study. Language, Gender and Feminism is an invaluable text for students new to the discipline of Language and Gender studies within English Language, Linguistics, Communication Studies and Women’s Studies, as well as being an up-to-date resource for more established researchers and scholars. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Brag Better Meredith Fineman, 2020-06-16 This effortless and unapologetic approach to self-promotion will manage your anxiety and allow you to champion yourself. Does talking about your accomplishments feel scary or icky because you're worried people will think you're obnoxious? Does it feel more natural to put your head down and do the work? Are you tired of watching the loudest people in your industry get disproportionate praise and rewards? If you answered yes to any of the above, you might be self-sabotaging. You need to learn to Brag Better. Meredith Fineman has built a career working with The Qualified Quiet: smart people who struggle to talk about themselves and thus go underestimated or unrecognized. Now, she shares the surefire and anxiety-proof strategies that have helped her clients effectively communicate their achievements and skillsets to others. Bragging Better doesn't require false bravado, talking over people, or pretending to be more qualified than you are. Instead, Fineman advocates finding quiet confidence in your opinions, abilities, and background, and then turning up the volume. In this book, you will learn the career-changing tools she's developed over the past decade that make bragging feel easy, including: Get remembered by focusing your personal brand and voice on key adjectives (like effective, subtle, and edgy) Practice explaining what you do in simple, sticky terms to earn respect and recognition from the public and people at work. Eliminate words that undermine your work and find better ones--like your bio saying you're trying or attempting to do something instead that you ARE doing it. If you're ready to begin Bragging Better--to telling the truth about your accomplishments with grace and confidence--this book is for you. |
| 1950 good housewife guide: Doxology C.J.S. Hayward, 2010-03-12 This book is a paean of the glory of God: a doxology, containing many of C.J.S. Hayward's recent works of Eastern Orthodox Christian theology. The works are varied, but illuminated by common themes, chief among them the Sermon on the Mount and the Bible and Philokalia and their practical and poignant in spirituality in hard times and global economic (and political) crisis. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: C.J.S. (Jonathan) Hayward wears many hats: author, philosopher, theologian, artist, poet, wayfarer, philologist, inventor, web guru, teacher. He is an Eastern Orthodox Christian, has lived in the U.S., Malaysia, England, and France, and holds master's degrees bridging math and computers (UIUC), and philosophy and theology (Cambridge). He has websites at JonathansCorner.com and CJSHayward.com. |
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1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd …
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Jun 17, 2010 · All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Colonial America. American Revolution. Early U.S. Slavery. Civil War. …
Historical Events in 1950 - On This Day
Jun 21, 2011 · Historical events from year 1950. Learn about 422 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1950 or search by date or keyword.
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United States American History Timeline 1950-1959. Two Cars in Every Garage. Most important historical events of each year of the decade of the 1950's listed.
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Sep 25, 2024 · Discover the most significant events of 1950, from world-changing political decisions to cultural milestones. Explore the key moments that shaped history during this …
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Sep 6, 2022 · In this article, we will look at 7 historical events that took place in the 1950s, with many of these events still impacting the world today. US soldiers fighting near the Ch’ongch’on …
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Events from the year 1950 in the United States. January 7 – A fire consumes Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, killing 41 patients. [1] January 12 – Cold War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean …
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What happened in the year 1950 in history? Famous historical events that shook and changed the world. Discover events in 1950.
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Dec 15, 2024 · The 1950s was a transformative decade globally, marked by post-war recovery, the Cold War, cultural shifts, and technological advancements.
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What happened and who was famous in 1950? Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 1950.
1950 - Wikipedia
1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1950th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 950th year of the 2nd …
The 1950s - American Culture & Society | HISTORY
Jun 17, 2010 · All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Colonial America. American Revolution. Early U.S. Slavery. Civil War. Immigration. …
Historical Events in 1950 - On This Day
Jun 21, 2011 · Historical events from year 1950. Learn about 422 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1950 or search by date or keyword.
U.S. Timeline 1950-1959 - America's Best History
United States American History Timeline 1950-1959. Two Cars in Every Garage. Most important historical events of each year of the decade of the 1950's listed.
Major Events of 1950 - Historical Moments That Defined the Year ...
Sep 25, 2024 · Discover the most significant events of 1950, from world-changing political decisions to cultural milestones. Explore the key moments that shaped history during this …
7 Historical Events that happened in the 1950s - HistoryColored
Sep 6, 2022 · In this article, we will look at 7 historical events that took place in the 1950s, with many of these events still impacting the world today. US soldiers fighting near the Ch’ongch’on …
1950 in the United States - Wikipedia
Events from the year 1950 in the United States. January 7 – A fire consumes Mercy Hospital in Davenport, Iowa, killing 41 patients. [1] January 12 – Cold War: U.S. Secretary of State Dean …
What Happened In 1950 - Historical Events 1950 - EventsHistory
What happened in the year 1950 in history? Famous historical events that shook and changed the world. Discover events in 1950.
The 1950’s - World of History
Dec 15, 2024 · The 1950s was a transformative decade globally, marked by post-war recovery, the Cold War, cultural shifts, and technological advancements.
What Happened in 1950 - On This Day
What happened and who was famous in 1950? Browse important and historic events, world leaders, famous birthdays and notable deaths from the year 1950.
