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This 3 page paper looks at this book that takes a feminist perspective and debates the point that housewives were bored in the 1950s. The book is looked at holistically but he idea of women staying home to raise children is the focus of the paper. No additional sources cited.
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womens movement, one point that the author seems to harp on is the fact that women were dissatisfied as housewives. Interestingly, in American culture today, while women have careers, there
are groups of mothers who strive for the opportunity to be able to stay home and rear children. With much literature coming out on the ill effects of day care,
there is the notion that while "housewives" are throwbacks to an earlier generation, the postmodern housewife does exist today by choice. Rosen (2001) does provide useful and humorous anecdotes in
respect to women and how they were valued as housewives during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. In a portion of the book, the author relays an anecdote about how when
Khrushchev was in the country, he and President Nixon had a discussion about women. Nixon boasted that America had a great deal of labor saving devices for housewives while
Khrushchev remarked that the Soviet Union had "little use for full-time housewives" (p.11). The remark provides a comparison in culture but should also put a shock wave through all women
in America. The nation of Russia--the nation that had recently been an enemy of the United States-- had "little use" for housewives. In fact, the idea that women were dubbed
"useful" should be frightening. While of course things have been good for women and today, women can obtain illegal abortions, participate in politics and have broken that proverbial glass
ceiling, the plight of the housewife should not be disparaged. Rosen (2001) makes some excellent points in respect to womens rights issues. However, by accepting the idea promoted by feminists
that being a housewife is unrewarding is really a myth. Although it is true that the stereotypical housewife who does little else but cook and clean, while her husband goes
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