When we left the 1950′s housewife and her ‘how was your day dear‘ routine, no one would have guessed that 20 years later the tables would be empty, bras would be burning and wives would be unrecognisable. The Feminist movement that began to find wide spread support in the 1960s, reached a peak of support [...]
The doting wife that caught the media’s attention
April 26, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Today’s history lesson leaves behind the upstairs downstairs society of the 19th Century and moves forward to the American Suburbs of the 1950s. We all know her well, we grew up with her on TV, have seen the adverts. read her books and watched her movies. Remarkably, the media cannot get enough of her–as I [...]
Mrs. Beeton and the dawn of the nesting book
April 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Before I begin my enthralling review of the Victorian Housewife, I wanted to say a big thank you to all of you who stopped by, commented, supported and participated in my new blog hop Fabulous Nest Friday. If you are free this Friday, I would love to have you along for the hop. ****************************** Thank [...]
American Colonial Housewife and the women’s liberation movement
April 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We have left behind the ever tidy Dutch Golden Age housewife who inspired an art movement, and fast forward a hundred years to 1776 where the first wives of the newly formed United States of America were setting the platform for seeing the added value of domestic work and women’s contribution to society. The American [...]
The Dutch Housewife and how she inspired an art movement
March 28, 2010 By Leave a Comment
We are now into over a 1000 years of housewife history, if you missed the last instalment click here. We left the Roman’s wives to fill their social calendars, skipped the dark ages (who needs all that gloom and dirt?) and find ourselves at the re-birth of European civilisation in the 17th century. Incase you [...]
