How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s - Tapa blanda

Nicholson, Virginia

 
9780241975183: How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s
Tapa blanda
ISBN 10: 0241975182 ISBN 13: 9780241975183
Editorial: Penguin Books, 2020

Sinopsis

'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

--------------------------------

"A feeling that we could do whatever we liked swept through us in the 60s . . ."

The sixties: a decade of space travel, utopian dreams and - above all - sexual revolution. It liberated a generation. But mostly men.

Meet dollybird Mavis, debutante Kristina, bunny girl Patsy, industrial campaigner Mary and countercultural Caroline. From Carnaby Street to Merseyside, white gloves to Black is Beautiful, their stories illustrate a turbulent power struggle, throwing an unsparing spotlight on morals, drugs, race, bomb culture and sex.

This is a moving, shocking book about tearing up the world and starting again. It's about peace, love and psychedelia, but also misogyny, violation and discrimination, in a decade discovering a new cause: equality.

And women would never be the same again.

--------------------------------

'Sparkling . . . there is a wonderfully diverse range of voices . . . we have a long way to go, but reading this book made me grateful for how far we have come' Daisy Goodwin, The Sunday Times

'An absorbing study of an extraordinary age. Beautifully written and intensively researched' Selina Hastings

"Sinopsis" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Acerca del autor

Virginia Nicholson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grew up in Yorkshire and Sussex, and studied at Cambridge University. She lived abroad in France and Italy, then worked as a documentary researcher for the BBC. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, her books include the acclaimed social histories Among the Bohemians, Singled Out, Millions Like Us, and Perfect Wives in Ideal Homes. She is married with three grown-up children and lives in Sussex.

"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.

Editorial
Penguin Books
Año de publicación
2020
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0241975182
ISBN 13 
9780241975183
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
512
Contacto del fabricante
no disponible
Persona responsable
Penguin Random House Ireland Limited
productsafety@penguin.co.uk

Morrison Chambers, 32 Nassau Street
Dublin
Irlanda

Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título

9780241242377: How Was It For You?: Women, Sex, Love and Power in the 1960s

Edición Destacada

ISBN 10:  0241242371 ISBN 13:  9780241242377
Editorial: Viking, 2019
Tapa dura