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Only halfway to paradise : women in postwar Britain, 1945-1968 /

In the postwar Britain of the late forties and fifties, and through the affluent sixties, feminism seemed dormant, and perhaps even dead. What happened to feminism during those years? And how did the contemporary Womens Liberation Movement grow so suddenly out of the silence that went before it? Eli...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wilson, Elizabeth, 1936-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Tavistock Publications, 1980.
Series:Social science paperbacks.
Subjects:
Women > Great Britain > Social conditions.
Women > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Great Britain > Social conditions > 1945-
Femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales > 1945-
Social conditions
Women.
Women > Social conditions.
Great Britain.
Soziale Situation
Großbritannien
Frau
Vrouwen.
Since 1900
Geschichte 1945-1948.
Geschichte 1945-1968.
Great Britain > Society > Role of women, 1945-1968
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the woman on the pillion
  • A new ideal for women
  • Right to work?
  • The chief means of fulfilment in life
  • The boundaries of sexuality
  • Sanity and madness
  • Culture and humanism
  • Novelists
  • The cause of reasonable feminism
  • Feminism: the return of the repressed.