Cold War in a Hot Kitchen

<p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The 1950s. Boring?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Hardly.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>An influx of European refugees stirrings of feminism and the threat of a third world war were remaking Australia. As the Cold War chilled inside a Melbourne house a young girl was caught in the crossfire of domestic conflict amid the clashing political and social values of her autocratic grandmother her self-denying mother and her glamorous aunt; three women who presented very different models of womanhood.</span></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>