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A Housewife by Any Other Name
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BOOK WORLD
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2 / 1988 |
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Lucy Mazareski
Lucy Mazareski reviews frequently for Catholic publications. |
"JUST A HOUSEWIFE"
The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
Glenn Matthews
New York, Oxford University Press, 1987
281 pp., $19.95
PERFECTION SALAD
Women and Cooking at the Turn of the Century
Laura Shapiro
New York, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1987
280 pp., $16.95
What's in a name? That which we call a rose
By any other name would smell as sweet.
--William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet
Nowadays, of course, many people would disagree with that wisdom. Advertising and public relations magnates expend vast sums in the belief that there's lots in a name. But the glib and glitzy twentieth century has yet to apprehend that the negative of the above is also true: a sour apple by any other name is still sour.
In the last decade, the word housewife, which has taken on increasingly negative connotations, has been largely dropped from usage and the higher-sounding homemaker adopted in its stead. Now that the new label has aged and begun to accrue the same sort
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