Sentenced to everyday life [Texte imprimé] : feminism and the housewife / Lesley Johnson and Justine Lloyd

Index

Bibliogr. p. 163-175

Only a housewife -- Defining the housewife : contemporary feminism -- Defining the housewife : early second wave feminism -- Reviewing the 1950s -- Feminism and the subject of modernity -- Good-enough feminists? -- Whom does she represent? -- The future in her hands -- As housewives, we are worms -- The meanings of home -- At home and at work -- Dream stuff -- The housing problem -- The housewife speaks -- The importance of looking -- On the kitchen front -- The view from the kitchen window -- The three faces of Eve -- Homework and housework -- Definitions of melodrama -- Putting on the apron -- The childless housewife -- A doubled plot of femininity -- Harpies like Mildred -- Boredom : the emotional slum -- Time to burn -- Housewife's corner -- Finding time -- Declining audiences : an afterword on the housewife