Books like A 1950s housewife by Sheila M. Hardy

The Bell Jar is the sole novel by Sylvia Plath, a psychologically intense and autobiographical look at a young woman’s decline into mental illness.

Virginia Woolf’s 1929 essay argues for women writers’ rightful place in a patriarchal literary tradition, using both fictional narrative and lecture recordings.

Betty Friedan’s 1963 classic uncovers the invisible barriers that kept women confined to domestic roles, sparking a cultural awakening that reshaped ideas about equality and personal fulfillment in the United States.

Judith Butler’s seminal text challenges essentialist views of sex and gender, proposing that identity is constructed through repeated social performances.

A 1950s marriage evolves into 1970s independence as a woman confronts her identity, relationships, and the shifting roles of women in society.

Spanish translation of "Revolution from within". A guide to reconstructing self esteem based on the author's personal experience.

Throughout history, effort, enterprise and energy have been expended by women in the ways of the household: cooking, cleaning, lighting, heating and laundrywork. This highly illustrated and delightfully written account looks at the changing role of the housewife over three hundred years. The period covered was one of immense social change - new social and family relationships, scientific advances and economic developments all had an effect on the housewife, some dramatic, others more gradual. Much of what we now take for granted - instant hot water, heat and light at the flick of a switch, fresh food all the year round - would have been inconceivable to the many 'household managers' represented in this book. Some of the evidence comes from the hands of housewives themselves via account books and domestic memoranda. Other material has been gathered from biographies, letters and 'improving tracts' aimed at housewives and the staff they employed. The lives of women from all walks of life and from all parts of Britain are discussed, creating a convincing picture of the similarities as well as the differences that have characterised women's domestic work from the early modern to the post-war period.

Examines the role of housewife and the esteem attached to the position both in the nineteenth century and in the twentieth.