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Love lives : from Cinderella to Frozen / Carol Dyhouse

Material Type	Books
Edition	First edition
Publication	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press , 2021, ©2021
Language	English
Size	viii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Location	Volume	Call No.	Barcode No.	Status	Comments	ISBN	Printed	Restriction	Req Memo
Books		367.9/L94	2000107369			9780198855460

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Notes	Content Type: text (rdacontent), Media Type: unmediated (rdamedia), Carrier Type: volume (rdacarrier) Includes bibliographical references and index 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 drea
Authors	*Dyhouse, Carol, 1948- author
Subjects	LCSH:Love -- History -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:Love -- History -- 21st century All Subject Search LCSH:Women -- Social conditions All Subject Search LCSH:Women in motion pictures LCSH:Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:Women -- Great Britain -- History -- 21st century All Subject Search LCSH:Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century All Subject Search LCSH:Women -- United States -- History -- 21st century All Subject Search FREE:Love. fast (OCoLC)fst01002769 FREE:Women. fast (OCoLC)fst01176568 FREE:Women in motion pictures. fast (OCoLC)fst01177931 FREE:Women -- Social conditions. fast (OCoLC)fst01176947 All Subject Search FREE:Great Britain. fast (OCoLC)fst01204623 FREE:United States. fast (OCoLC)fst01204155 FREE:1900-2099 fast FREE:History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 LCSH:Walt Disney Pictures LCSH:Marriage in motion pictures LCSH:Fairy tales in motion pictures LCSH:Feminism and motion pictures
Classification	LCC:HQ1206 DC23:305.4 DC23:305.42
ID	BB11524691
ISBN	9780198855460
NCID	BC09093836

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