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Desperate housewives, neuroses and the domestic environment, 1945-1970
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- Creator
- by Ali Haggett
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- London : Pickering & Chatto, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- ix, 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781848933101, 184893310X, 9781848933118, 1848933118
- OCLC
- ocn769547040
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-230) and index.
- Introduction -- Reflections on the desperate housewife -- The art of marriage: marriage and mothering during the post-war period -- The housewife's day : personal accounts of housewifery and mothering -- Lightening troubled minds: mid-twentieth century medical understandings of affective disorders -- Not something you talk about: personal accounts of anxiety and depression -- For ladies in distress: representations of anxiety and depression in the medical and popular press
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- Depression -- history -- Great Britain.
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- Depression -- history -- United States.
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- Gender Identity -- Great Britain.
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- Gender Identity -- United States.
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- History, 20th Century -- Great Britain.
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- History, 20th Century -- United States.
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- Neurotic Disorders -- history -- Great Britain.
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- Neurotic Disorders -- history -- United States.
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- Social Conditions -- history -- Great Britain.
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- Social Conditions -- history -- United States.
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- Spouses -- history -- Great Britain.
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- Spouses -- history -- United States.
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- Women's Health -- Great Britain.
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- Women's Health -- United States.
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- Housewives -- Mental health -- History -- 20th century.
- Housewives -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
- Depression in women -- Social aspects.
- Sex role -- Health aspects -- History -- 20th century.