A 1950s Mother

Author : Sheila Hardy
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492543
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A 1950s Mother written by Sheila Hardy and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embarking on motherhood was a very different affair in the 1950s to what it is today. From how to dress baby (matinee coats and bonnets) to how to administer feeds (strictly four-hourly if following the Truby King method), the childrearing methods of the 1950s are a fascinating insight into the lives of women in that decade. In A 1950s Mother, author, mother and grandmother Sheila Hardy collects heart-warming, personal anecdotes from those women who became mothers during this fascinating post-war period. From the benefits of 'crying it out' and being put out in the garden to gripe water and Listen with Mother, the wisdom of mothers from the 1950s reverberates down the decades to young mothers of any generation and is a hilarious and, at times, poignant trip down memory lane for any mother or child of the 1950s.

Author : Sheila Hardy
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492543
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A 1950s Mother written by Sheila Hardy and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EMBARKING on motherhood was a very different affair in the 1950s to what it is today. From how to dress baby (matinee coats and bonnets) to how to administer feeds (strictly four-hourly if following the Truby King method), the childrearing methods of the 1950s are a fascinating insight into the lives of women in that decade. In A 1950s Mother, author, mother and grandmother Sheila Hardy collects heart-warming, personal anecdotes from those women who became mothers during this fascinating post-war period. From the benefits of ‘crying it out’ and being put out in the garden to gripe water and Listen with Mother, the wisdom of mothers from the 1950s reverberates down the decades to young mothers of any generation and is a hilarious and, at times, poignant trip down memory lane for any mother or child of the 1950s.

Author : Eugenia Kaledin
Publisher : Boston : Twayne Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mothers and More written by Eugenia Kaledin and published by Boston : Twayne Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the lives, work, and consciousness of American women during the Eisenhower Era.

Author : Rose Handleigh-Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750538596
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Another Time, Another Place written by Rose Handleigh-Adams and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A child of the Blitz, Rose's youngest days are shaped by iconic experiences of wartime and post-war Britain - evacuation, grinding poverty and seemingly endless years of rationing. But she also faces other, more unconventional challenges in the form of her eccentric and unpredictable family. As Rose enters her teenage years, there are other, even darker clouds on the horizon. Her blossoming body and good looks attract the attention of older men, and she is prematurely drawn into a painful world of sexual betrayal, heartache and bureaucratic cruelty. As her father is constantly reminding her, 'no good' will ever come of her.

Author : Sheila Hardy
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750966920
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A 1950s Housewife written by Sheila Hardy and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nostalgic look at what it was like to be a housewife in the 1950sBeing a housewife in the 1950s was quite different than today. Women were expected to create a spotless home, delicious meals, and an inviting bedroom. From the perils of "courting" to the inevitable list of wedding gifts to the household tips that any self-respecting new wife should know, this book collects heartwarming personal anecdotes from women who embarked on married life during this fascinating post-war period, providing a trip down memory lane for any wife or child of the 1950s.

Author : Marie Porter
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527565521
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transformative Power in Motherwork written by Marie Porter and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-02-03 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the experiences of a group of Australian women who became first-time mothers between 1950 and 1965. A grounded theory of transformative power in motherwork is presented that has emerged from the analysis of interviews. The mothers talked about what they did in their active mothering years. The author argues that despite being constrained by the gender bias in the patriarchal context, these mothers were agents who developed skills that enabled them to resist or creatively deal with most of the constraints they faced. Their emphasis was on their agency and the power to nurture their children into responsible adults. Their awareness of the importance of their motherwork acted as a motivator in this development. The author further argues that the relationship between each mother and each of her children is a transformative power relationship in which both mother and child are transformed—the child into an independent adult and the mother into a skilled self-motivated agent through her motherwork. Any threat to this process resulted in the mother doing all she could to resist or counteract the constraint/s she was encountering. Transformative power expressed in motherwork can be recognised analytically by several characteristics. It empowers both parties in the mother–child duality. Complexity, diversity, fluidity, and responsiveness to the physical, intellectual, and emotional aspects of the relationship are all evident in transformative power relationships.

Author : Helen McCarthy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408870762
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Double Lives written by Helen McCarthy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2021 Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2021 Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown 2021 'Fabulous' - The Times 'A milestone in women's history' - Observer 'Groundbreaking ... a fascinating read' - Herald In Britain today, three-quarters of mothers are in employment and paid work is an unremarkable feature of women's lives after childbirth. Yet a century ago, working mothers were in the minority, excluded altogether from many occupations, whilst their wage-earning was widely perceived as a social ill. In Double Lives, Helen McCarthy accounts for this remarkable transformation and the momentous consequences it has had for Britain. Recovering the everyday worlds of working mothers, this groundbreaking history forces us not only to re-evaluate the past, but to ask anew how current attitudes towards mothers in the workplace have developed and how far we have to go. 'Impressive and nuanced' - Guardian 'Brilliant' - Literary Review

Author : Francine Rivers
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1496441842
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Her Mother's Hope written by Francine Rivers and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first of an epic family saga by Francine Rivers, mother and daughter relationships are challenged, setting their family on a course full of heartache.

Author : Peter Andreas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501124455
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rebel Mother written by Peter Andreas and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Those who enjoyed Jeannette Walls’s The Glass Castle will find much to admire” (Booklist, starred review) in this “thoroughly engrossing” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir about a boy on the run with his mother, as she abducts him to Latin America in search of the revolution. Carol Andreas was a traditional 1950s housewife from a small Mennonite town in central Kansas who became a radical feminist and Marxist revolutionary. From the late sixties to the early eighties, she went through multiple husbands and countless lovers while living in three states and five countries. She took her youngest son, Peter, with her wherever she went, even kidnapping him and running off to South America after his straitlaced father won a long and bitter custody fight. They were chasing the revolution together, though the more they chased it the more distant it became. They battled the bad “isms” (sexism, imperialism, capitalism, fascism, consumerism), and fought for the good “isms” (feminism, socialism, communism, egalitarianism). Between the ages of five and eleven, Peter lived in more than a dozen homes, moving from the comfortably bland suburbs of Detroit to a hippie commune in Berkeley to a socialist collective farm in pre-military coup Chile to highland villages and coastal shantytowns in Peru. When they secretly returned to America they settled down clandestinely in Denver, where his mother changed her name to hide from his father. A “luminous memoir” (Publishers Marketplace, starred review) and “an illuminating portrait of a childhood of excitement, adventure, and love” (Kirkus Reviews) this is an extraordinary account of a deep mother-son bond and the joy and toll of growing up in a radical age. Peter Andreas is an insightful and candid narrator of “a profound and enlightening book that will open readers up to different ideas about love, acceptance, and the bond between mother and son” (Library Journal, starred review).

Author : Elizabeth Longford
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750981709
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All in the Family written by Elizabeth Longford and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2016-10-21 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Longford proves the truth of the old saying that Mother knows best, a theory that is being treated with renewed respect by many of todays experts in child-rearing. She cites from her own experience as the mother of a large family, and quotes from letters which she received from other parents. They are all faced with similar situations: childish fantasies; the problem of good manners and how to enforce them; whether or not one should punish a child, and how; dealing with the spoilt youngest child; and family squabbles. They are not necessarily problems (although some of them are), but points in a familys life on which nearly all parents would welcome some suggestions from others who have had the same experiences. Written in a witty and entertaining style, All in the Family contains an abundance of practical advice that no parent would want to miss.