"The historical association between femininity and neurosis is well documented. Many recent studies have seen women's mental health issues in the aftermath of the Second World War as being a direct consequence of a lack of opportunity and the banality of a domestic lifestyle. Al…
Ali Hagget explores the tension between the rhetoric put forward by feminist commentators and the experiences of ordinary middle-class housewives. The author focusses on the perception that these women developed symptoms of neurosis as a result of the domestic role. The focus of…
The historical association between femininity and neurosis is well documented. Many recent studies have seen women's mental health issues in the aftermath of the Second World War as being a direct consequence of a lack of opportunity and the banality of a domestic lifestyle. Alt…
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.
"The historical association between femininity and neurosis is well documented. Many recent studies have seen women's mental health issues in the aftermath of the Second World War as being a direct consequence of a lack of opportunity and the banality of a domestic lifestyle. Al…
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.