Frilly aprons and lipstick; feather dusters and rolling pins. These, according to Rachel Cooke, are all that is left of 1950s women in the popular mind. She quotes Katharine Whitehorn, a fellow British journalist, on the misconception of that decade as merely "a damp patch between the battleground of the Forties and the fairground of the Sixties". And she notes the current view of grandmothers as "unambitious, docile, emollient, inhibited, clenched, prudish, thwarted". This will come as news to many grandmothers.
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