{"product_id":"her-brilliant-career-rachel-cooke-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\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Cooke\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0062333879\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062333872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.70h x 5.60w x 0.90d","brand":"Rachel Cooke","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946160554239,"sku":"9780062333872","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0f96d984-f6da-43ae-a8de-57fb5afb66b6.jpg?v=1681511823","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/her-brilliant-career-rachel-cooke-9780062333872","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}