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Author:

Cooke, Rachel (Journalist)

Title:

Her brilliant career : ten extraordinary women of the fifties / Rachel Cooke.

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xxv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Women--History--20th century.
Nineteen fifties.

Notes:

"Published in Great Britian in 2013 by Virago Press, an imprint of Little, Brown"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-316) and index.

Contents:

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.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

0062333860
9780062333865

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

KJPF566 -- Fort Madison Public Library (Fort Madison)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)