"Who was that woman?" sets out to demonstrate the place of the Weekly in the lives of Australian women during this era. It incorporates a social history of the period when the nuclear family and strictly gendered roles reached its height and then began to decline under the pressure of women's return to the workplace.

Contents: Prologue. Now that the war was over: The Australian Women's Weekly in 1946 / Barbara Baird -- 1. The housewife as consumer -- 2. Sex, romance and marriage -- 3. Motherhood according to the Weekly -- First Interlude. Remembering The Australian Women's Weekly in the 1950s / Lyndall Ryan -- 4. Women's work -- 5. House and garden -- 6. Food and cooking -- Second Interlude. 'Satisfaction guaranteed!': female sexuality and desire in The Weekly, 1961-71 / Kate Borrett -- 7. Health -- 8. Fashion and beauty -- Conclusion. The Weekly's woman - and her Others -- Epilogue: The Weekly since 1971.

"First published 2002" -- verso t.p.

Includes bibliography (p.[159]-161) and index.