Stories
- Article
Desperate housewives and suburban neurosis
Discover how a pioneering health centre replaced housewives’ supposedly empty home lives with a social space that encouraged healthy child rearing.
- Article
The bishop’s profitable sex workers
How did the Church rake in revenue from 14th-century sex regulations? Kate Lister explores a bishop’s lucrative rulebook.
- In pictures
The post-war adverts that tried to cure lonely women
Isolated housewives, lonely female office workers: while the 1950s saw the birth of a general concern about them, manufacturers also spotted an opportunity. Find out how advertising promised that products could salve solitude.
Catalogue
- Books
Housewives beware / by Doris Grant.
Grant, Doris, 1905-2003.Date: [1958], ©1958- Books
Housewives and citizens : domesticity and the women's movement in England, 1928-64 / Caitríona Beaumont.
Beaumont, Caitríona.Date: [2013]- Books
Housewives' beliefs conerning past and future food trends / by C.W. Golby and J.C. McKenzie.
Golby, C. W.Date: 1966?]- Books
Housewives as home safety managers : the changing perception of the home as a place of hazard and risk, 1870-1940 / Joel A. Tarr and Mark Tebeau.
Tarr, Joel A.Date: 1997- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Inner Wheel-National Housewives' Register
Date: c.1963-1968Reference: SA/ALR/A.4/4/313-451Part of: Abortion Law Reform Association