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La reina de la casa
Pilar Eyre
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Pilar Eyre revisits women’s everyday lives in postwar Spain through magazines, advertising, newsreels and memories. Domestic expectations and public messages reveal the roles women were encouraged to accept. Humour and historical observation accompany this account of changing habits, aspirations and social constraints.
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