Tied to the kitchen sink'? Women's Lives and Women's History in Mid-Twentieth Century Britain and Australia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4349077 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alistair Thomson (0000-0002-1735-1830) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 126-147 |
| Publication date | 2013-02-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women s History Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0961-2025 • E-ISSN: 1747-583X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09612025.2012.724920 |
| OpenAlex | W2147253780 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
In the decades after World War Two, women in Britain and Australia lived with—and sometimes against—a compelling expectation about women's role: they should marry and devote their lives to suburban domesticity and childcare. This article considers how the life stories of four women—born in Britain between 1928–38, and living in Australia from the 1950s to the 1970s—can illuminate and complicate our understanding of the experience of the postwar suburban dream. It shows how women sometimes articulated imaginative responses to limiting circumstances and thus stretched the boundaries of possibility
Dream · Limiting · Sociology · Women's history · Australian History and Society · Engineering · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |