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'One of the great social historians of our time. No one else makes history this fun' Amanda Foreman ' How Was It For You? subtly but powerfully subverts complacent male assumptions about a legendary decade' David Kynaston -----------------
Virginia Nicholson's Singled Out is the touching and beautifully told story of the women who were left alone after World War I - a remarkable generation of women who were changed by war; and in their turn helped change society. In 1919 a generation of
In Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes , Virginia Nicholson tells the story of women in the 1950s: a time before the Pill, when divorce spelled scandal and two-piece swimsuits caused mass alarm. Turn the page back to the mid-twentieth century, and discover a wor
A panoramic social history that chronicles the quest for beauty in all its contradictions--and how it affects the female body. "Women have been fat or slim, hyperthyroid or splenetic, sallow or pink-cheeked, slouched or erect, according to the preval