Add to ORKGIn this essay we wish to trouble a received history of popular cultural narratives about women’s lives in the 1940s and 1950s as shaped by dominant ideologies of the home as women’s “proper place. ” By comparing two post-war Hollywood films that feature housewives as main characters, we show that these texts, rather than being concerned with promoting domesticity as women’s proper social role
The American 1950s have long been regarded as perhaps the most conformist decade of the 20th century...
There is no consensus about how women should engage with the issue of work. Conservatives, feminists...
There are two central arguments around which this thesis is constructed. The first is that we cannot...
In this essay we wish to trouble a received history of popular cultural narratives about women’s liv...
Drawing on research and evidence surrounding the housewife figure of the 1940s and 1950s, Johnson an...
Cultural stereotypes and controlling images have been imbedded in the context of U.S. cinema, espec...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
The experience of total war and reconstruction in 1940s Britain brought the idea of the nation to th...
This thesis investigates how domestic space is represented in ten films released between 1936 and 2...
In my thesis, my aim is to explore and analyze the role of women’s magazines, including Ladies’ Home...
This thesis will compare Hollywood representations of middle-class workingwomen in\ud World War II e...
During the postwar period the modern family home assumed a special place in the Australian imaginary...
To counteract the potential harm vulnerable young men and women faced in a new age of postwar econom...
The American 1950s have long been regarded as perhaps the most conformist decade of the 20th century...
There is no consensus about how women should engage with the issue of work. Conservatives, feminists...
There are two central arguments around which this thesis is constructed. The first is that we cannot...
In this essay we wish to trouble a received history of popular cultural narratives about women’s liv...
Drawing on research and evidence surrounding the housewife figure of the 1940s and 1950s, Johnson an...
Cultural stereotypes and controlling images have been imbedded in the context of U.S. cinema, espec...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
This article considers the responses of women, many of whom describe themselves as housewives, in th...
The experience of total war and reconstruction in 1940s Britain brought the idea of the nation to th...
This thesis investigates how domestic space is represented in ten films released between 1936 and 2...
In my thesis, my aim is to explore and analyze the role of women’s magazines, including Ladies’ Home...
This thesis will compare Hollywood representations of middle-class workingwomen in\ud World War II e...
During the postwar period the modern family home assumed a special place in the Australian imaginary...
To counteract the potential harm vulnerable young men and women faced in a new age of postwar econom...
The American 1950s have long been regarded as perhaps the most conformist decade of the 20th century...
There is no consensus about how women should engage with the issue of work. Conservatives, feminists...
There are two central arguments around which this thesis is constructed. The first is that we cannot...