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Dyhouse Carol (Professor Of History Emeritus University Of Sussex)
Love Lives From Cinderella To Frozen
Love Lives From Cinderella To Frozen
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Binding: Hardcover
Description: The story of how women's lives loves and dreams have been re - shaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage Mr Right and happy endings. Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s when dreams of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending a solution to life's problems. But over the next fifty years women's lives were transformed not by the magic wand of a fairy godmother nor by marrying princes but by education work birth control - and feminism. However while widening opportunities for women were seen as progress feminists were regularly caricatured as man - haters cast in the role of ugly sisters witches or wicked fairies in the fairy - tale. This book is about the reshaping of women's lives loves and dreams since 1950, the year in which Walt Disney's film Cinderella gave expression to popular ideas of romance and at a time when marriage was a major determinant of female life chances and teenage girls dreamed of Mr Right and happy endings. It ends with the runaway success of Disney's Frozen in 2013 - a film with relevance to very different times. Along the way it illuminates how women's expectations and emotional landscapes have shifted asking bold questions about how women's lives have been transformed since 1950. How have women's changing life experiences been mirrored in new expectations about marriage intimacy and family life? How have new forms of independence through education and work and greater control over childbearing altered women's life ambitions? And were feminists right to believe that sexual equality would improve relationships between men and women?
Title: Love Lives From Cinderella To Frozen
Author(s): Dyhouse Carol (Professor Of History Emeritus University Of Sussex)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198855460
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 4/1/2021
Category: Sociology: Family & Relationships
Description: The story of how women's lives loves and dreams have been re - shaped since 1950, the year of Walt Disney's Cinderella and a time when teenage girls dreamed of marriage Mr Right and happy endings. Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s when dreams of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending a solution to life's problems. But over the next fifty years women's lives were transformed not by the magic wand of a fairy godmother nor by marrying princes but by education work birth control - and feminism. However while widening opportunities for women were seen as progress feminists were regularly caricatured as man - haters cast in the role of ugly sisters witches or wicked fairies in the fairy - tale. This book is about the reshaping of women's lives loves and dreams since 1950, the year in which Walt Disney's film Cinderella gave expression to popular ideas of romance and at a time when marriage was a major determinant of female life chances and teenage girls dreamed of Mr Right and happy endings. It ends with the runaway success of Disney's Frozen in 2013 - a film with relevance to very different times. Along the way it illuminates how women's expectations and emotional landscapes have shifted asking bold questions about how women's lives have been transformed since 1950. How have women's changing life experiences been mirrored in new expectations about marriage intimacy and family life? How have new forms of independence through education and work and greater control over childbearing altered women's life ambitions? And were feminists right to believe that sexual equality would improve relationships between men and women?
Title: Love Lives From Cinderella To Frozen
Author(s): Dyhouse Carol (Professor Of History Emeritus University Of Sussex)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780198855460
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 4/1/2021
Category: Sociology: Family & Relationships