{"product_id":"her-brilliant-career-ten-extraordinary-women-of-the-fifties-9780062333872","title":"Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exuberant group biography--\"a splendidly various collection of 'brief lives' written with both gusto and sensitivity\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e)--that follows ten women in 1950s Britain whose pioneering lives paved the way for feminism and laid the foundation of modern women's success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHer Brilliant Career\u003c\/em\u003e, Rachel Cooke goes back in time to offer an entertaining and iconoclastic look at ten women in the 1950s--pioneers whose professional careers and complicated private lives helped to create the opportunities available to today's women. These plucky and ambitious individuals--among them a film director, a cook, an architect, an editor, an archaeologist, a race car driver--left the house, discovered the bliss of work, and ushered in the era of the working woman. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDaring and independent, these remarkable unsung heroines--whose obscurity makes their accomplishments all the more astonishing and relevant --loved passionately, challenged men's control, made their own mistakes, and took life on their own terms, breaking new ground and offering inspiration. Their individual portraits gradually form a landscape of 1950s culture, and women's unique--and rapidly evolving--role.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore there could be a Danica Patrick, there had to be a Sheila van Damm; before there was Barbara Walters, there was Nancy Spain; before there was Kathryn Bigelow, came Muriel Box. The pioneers of \u003cem\u003eHer Brilliant Career\u003c\/em\u003e forever changed the fabric of culture, society, and the work force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the Fifties, retold: vivid, surprising and, most of all, modern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHer Brilliant Career\u003c\/em\u003e is illustrated with more than 80 black-and-white photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCooke, Rachel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eRachel Cooke is an award-winning journalist. She writes for \u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e and is the television critic for the \u003cem\u003eNew Statesman\u003c\/em\u003e. This is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491460321554,"sku":"9780062333872","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_58353e13-22b1-45fd-9200-370a4768a8f0.jpg?v=1730541090","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/her-brilliant-career-ten-extraordinary-women-of-the-fifties-9780062333872","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}