Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-230) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Reflections on the desperate housewife -- The art of marriage : marriage and mothering during the post-war period --The housewife's day : personal accounts of housewifery and mothering -- Lightening troubled minds : mid-twentieth century medical understandings of affective disorders -- Not something you talk about : personal accounts of anxiety and depression -- For ladies in distress : representations of anxiety and depression in the medical and popular press.
Series:
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine ; no. 7
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