Her brilliant career ten extraordinary women of the fifties
Journalist Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s--pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create the opportunities available to today's women. These intrepid and ambitious individuals--among them a...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,
[2014]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Her brilliant career : |b ten extraordinary women of the fifties / |c Rachel Cooke. |
| 250 | |a First U.S. edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, |c [2014] | |
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| 300 | |a xxv, 341 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 500 | |a "Published in Great Britian in 2013 by Virago Press, an imprint of Little, Brown"--Title page verso. | ||
| 520 | |a Journalist Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s--pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create the opportunities available to today's women. These intrepid and ambitious individuals--among them a film director, a cook, an architect, an editor, an archaeologist, and a race car driver--left the house, discovered the bliss of work, and ushered in the era of the working woman Daring and independent, these remarkable unsung heroines--whose obscurity makes their accomplishments all the more astonishing and relevant--loved passionately, challenged men's control, made their own mistakes, and took life on their own terms, breaking new ground and offering inspiration. Their individual portraits form a landscape of 1950s culture, and of women's unique--and rapidly evolving--role. Before there could be a Danica Patrick, there had to be a Sheila van Damm; before there was Barbara Walters, there was Nancy Spain; before Kathryn Bigelow came Muriel Box. The pioneers of Her Brilliant Career forever changed the fabric of culture, society, and the workforce. This is the Fifties retold: vivid, surprising and, most of all, modern.--From publisher description. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a In the kitchen with Patience Gray -- The show must go on : three trouser-wearing characters : Nancy Spain, writer and personality; Joan Werner Laurie, magazine editor; Sheila van Damm, rally-car driver and theatre manager -- A monumental ambition : Alison Smithson, architect -- In the garden with Margery Fish -- The Brontës of Shepherd's Bush : Muriel Box, director, and Betty Box, producer -- Digging for victory : Jacquetta Hawkes, archaeologist -- All rise : Rose Heilbron, QC -- Fashion in the fifties -- Some good and richly subversive novels by women, 1950-60. | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316) and index. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Women |x History |y 20th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Nineteen fifties. | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Seibel, Sophie Stein tribute. | |
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