21 November 2013, The Tablet

Her Brilliant Career: ten extraordinary women of the fifties

by Rachel Cooke

She’s come a long way

 
Back in November 2011, I and other members of the Fawcett Society took to the streets donned in twinsets and red lipstick, buffed skirts and Marigolds to protest against government cuts which, we argued, threatened to rewind the battle for equality back to that pre-feminist era, the 1950s. The common perception is that this decade was dominated by a culture of compliant conservative femininity; it was the world of Doris Day domesticity, the way things were before the 1960s radical feminist movement finally opened women’s eyes. Rachel Cooke’s Her Brilliant Career entreats us to rethink this view of the 1950s woman. She reminds us that this was the decade in which Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist treatise The Second Sex was published in English, Doris Lessing caused a sensati
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