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
