Although the figure of the ‘desperate housewife’ is familiar to us, Haggett suggests that many women in the 1950s and ’60s led satisfying lives and that gender roles, while very different, were often seen as equal.
Introduction; Chapter 1 Reflections on the Desperate Housewife; Chapter 2 The Art of Marriage: Marriage and Mothering During the Post-War Period; Chapter 3 The Housewife’s Day: Personal Accounts of Housewifery and Mothering; Chapter 4 Lightening Troubled Minds: Mid-Twentieth Century Medical Understandings of Affective Disorders; Chapter 5 Not Something you Talk about: Personal Accounts of Anxiety and Depression; Chapter 6 For Ladies in Distress: Representations of Anxiety and Depression in the Medical and Popular Press; conclusion Conclusion;
