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  Housewife Info - Encyclopedia WikiWhat.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
A housewife is a wife whose prime occupation is to care for her family and home.
Reasons for choosing the occupation of a housewife vary, but many women choose it because financial benefits of a job are reduced by possible additional costs of childcare, food and transportation and many families simply appreciate home quality (including, in the case that there are children, being with them) above additional material goods.
They have also stated that the label "housewife" is sometimes intended to be demeaning and is sometimes perceived to be demeaning, whether intended to be so or not.
www.wikiwhat.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/housewife.html   (373 words)

  
 Homemaker - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The term homemaker is used in preference to either housewife or househusband because it is inclusive, defines the role in terms of activities, rather than relation to another, and is independent of marital status.
Reasons for choosing the occupation of a housewife vary, but many women choose it largely because of financial benefits and their view of families.
Even in rich families, most women believe that a housewife is stripped of her income sources and is dependent on her husband.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Housewife   (1067 words)

  
 On "The Young Housewife"
And the suggestion that the housewife is a leaf carries with it the traditional references to the fleeting life of vegetation as an analogy for human life.
Generically, to begin with, "The Young Housewife" is best read as a parodic courtly love poem: the "solitary" physician at the wheel of his car recalls the knight on his charger, approaching the fortified castle where his lady is kept in captivity by the tyrannical lord of the manor.
One critic suggests that "the young housewife is metaphorically crushed in the last stanza," since, in the previous stanza's Shakespearean conclusion, she is herself compared to a fallen leaf.
www.usm.maine.edu /~jkuenz/391/housewife.htm   (2380 words)

  
 Politicizing the Housewife
For them, being a housewife was a negation of their potential as human beings, and they discovered the courage to reach out to make a different choice.
A new theory of the housewife was evolving in which the role had the political status of chattel.
Gladstein refused to be devalued as a human being because she was a housewife.
www.zetetics.com /mac/articles/housewife.html   (2522 words)

  
 Personal Essay by a Full-Time Housewife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
I am a 41-year-old housewife living in Kisakata, a small coastal town in Akita Prefecture, with my husband and two children, a 17-year-old son and a 15-year-old daughter.
I found a nursery school for the children and enrolled in a typing course with the idea that I would be able to work at home.
But what they do not realize is that as a full-time housewife, I feel I have to perform my role 100 percent, and not get by with a minimum, as working women might be forced to do.
www.askasia.org /frclasrm/readings/r000097.htm   (1691 words)

  
 The Sage and the Housewife: Covers
Her spontaneous encounters with the enigmatic sage are full of wit and humor.
Convent educated and a graduate in home science, she had to leave her hometown, Bombay, after her marriage and settle in Bangalore where she currently lives with her two children.
As a housewife, she spent most of her leisure in reading philosophy.
www.well.com /user/jct/sage.htm   (431 words)

  
 Housewife Confidential
When a woman described herself as a "housewife," she was defining herself primarily through her relationship to her house and her husband.
When a housewife subjected herself and her work to a bit of brutally honest examination, she may have begun by assessing how well she was doing with the children, but she may just as well have begun by contemplating the nature and quality of her housework.
If it had been suggested to her that she spend the long, delicate hours between three and six o'clock squiring her children to the array of enhancing activities pursued by the modern child, she would have laughed.
www.theatlantic.com /doc/prem/200309/flanagan   (630 words)

  
 Housewife
I wanted a housewife so she could stay at home and take care of me, cook, wash and iron, and have my children.
I am suggesting that it is wrong to require your partner to be a housewife.
If it is her free choice and desire to be at home, especially when the children are young, then, you will not demand that she be a maid.
www.soencouragement.org /housewife.htm   (1167 words)

  
 The Good Life - The Heroic Housewife (Page3)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The good housewife is really more than a house keeper, she is a homemaker, for it is she was turns a cold house into a warm home.
Rather, it is the long- sustained, day-in and day-out, unassuming and unnoticed effort and strife of a seemingly fragile woman, the housewife that truly constitutes heroism.
Surely, the life of a truly good housewife is worthy of attention and emulation.
www.hindubooks.org /the_good_life/the_heroic_housewife/page3.htm   (182 words)

  
 Diary of a Mad Housewife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Diary of a Mad Housewife is a 1970 film which tells the story of a frustrated housewife who takes a lover, but doesn't find satisfaction.
It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress (Carrie Snodgress).
Despite critical acclaim for her role in "Housewife," Snodgress turned her back on Hollywood in 1971 to live with boyfriend Neil Young on his northern California ranch and care for their son, Zeke, who was born with cerebral palsy.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diary_of_a_Mad_Housewife   (274 words)

  
 Frugal Japan - Encyclopedia - Housewife Magazines
Take a peek into one of Japan's greatest hidden frugal resources: the housewife magazine.
Even if you don't read Japanese, these magazines are an interesting cultural experience.
With titles like "Sutekina Okusan" (Lovely Wife) and "Shufu no Tomo" (Housewife's Friend), these monthlies are packed with recipes, storage tips, DIY projects, and of course, tons of frugal savings ideas.
www.frugaljapan.com /encyclopedia/magazines.html   (656 words)

  
 The Good Life - The Heroic Housewife (Page1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
" A conscientious and dutiful housewife is truly a treasure beyond, measure.
The occupation of a housewife or a housekeeper is so taken for granted that it is very often slighted.as something trivial and insignificant.
The term "housewife is often casually employed as equivalent to the man on the street ".
www.hindubooks.org /the_good_life/the_heroic_housewife/page1.htm   (122 words)

  
 Today's Housewife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
As TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE it was published by the Geiger-Crist Co., Cooperstown, New York (February 1917 to May 1927); it changed title to TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE AND WOMAN AND HOME (May to December 1927), changing its name finally to TODAY'S WOMAN AND HOME (published in New York, New York; January to September 1928).
In our image archive the last issue of THE HOUSEWIFE for which we have a cover is October 1916, leading one to conclude that TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE is the result of a 1917 merger of TODAY'S MAGAZINE with THE HOUSEWIFE.
If you have copies of these magazines and would be willing to scan them or let us scan them for you, please contact us.
www.magazineart.org /general/womens/todayshousewife   (751 words)

  
 Learn more about Housewife in the online encyclopedia.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Learn more about Housewife in the online encyclopedia.
Enter a phrase or search word in the box below.
Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
www.onlineencyclopedia.org /h/ho/housewife.html   (403 words)

  
 The housewife's economic importance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Not only was the housewife responsible for the physical well-being of the family, but she was actively involved in the productivity of the estate: under her guidance were produced vegetables from the garden; woollen, linen and hempen thread; dairy products; and malt, together with its end-products of beer and ale.
If we add her activities in the yard, there would also have been eggs and various fowl for eating.
It was during this period, however, that several domestic industries began to be centralized in the cities; thus professional tradesmen took over the housewife's economic role.
ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/society/economicimportance.html   (215 words)

  
 Housewife book search page
Songs From An Unmarried Housewife and Mother, Greenwich Village, USA
The Housewife Dilemma : Positive Perspectives for Reluctant Homemakers
excuse it, as Housewife might by the theory that the sensational element
91books.tripod.com /housewife.html   (88 words)

  
 Housewife Chronicles: February 2005
Are you ever tempted to type "hot housewife action" over and over again and then post a picture of a vintage housewife who is a bit overly warm from using the carpet sweeper?
I'm a pretty geeky gal, and I've been keeping a running tab on the strange things people are looking for and end up at my place.
I remember being a sophomore in High School and virtually failing Algebra (I really don't do well with Math) and my parents constantly harping on the fact that they felt I wasn't applying myself.
hausfrau.typepad.com /housewife_chronicles/2005/02   (2204 words)

  
 Housewife Info Page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Housewife Archives.
Subscribe to Housewife by filling out the following form.
You will be sent email requesting confirmation, to prevent others from gratuitously subscribing you.
www.pairlist.net /mailman/listinfo/housewife   (202 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Kentucky Housewife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Virginia Housewife : Or Methodical Cook: A Facsimile of an Authentic Early American Cookbook by Mary Randolph
The American Frugal Housewife by Lydia Maria Francis Child
Good soup may be made of any part of a fine fresh beef; but the leg, or hock, is seldom used in any other way, and makes equally as good soup as any other part of the beef.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1557095140?v=glance   (605 words)

  
 Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Plot Outline: A housewife with an abusive husband has an affair with a writer.
Carrie Snodgress is wistful, sad, struggling and funny playing harried NYC housewife on the verge of collapse, Richard Benjamin is her anal-attentive husband, Frank Langella her uncommitted lover.
From a book by Sue Kaufmann that ranks as one of the funniest satiric novels I've ever read comes this sometimes-surreal jumble by Frank Perry.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0065636   (335 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese Housewife (Asia : Local Studies/Global Themes)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To study the relationship between gender and liberal democratic citizenship, LeBlanc conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork in suburban Tokyo among housewives, volunteer groups, consumer cooperative movements, and the members of a committee to reelect a female Diet member who used her own housewife status as the key to victory.
For a long time now, there has been a little something about a bicycle inside my head that I have been meaning to write down somewhere; only recently did I come to understand that here is where I should write it.
bicycle citizenship, housewife identity, housewife label, housewife consciousness, unorganized housewife, housewife rhetoric, housewife citizen, active housewives, recycle shop, volunteer ethic, precampaign period, ward assembly, campaign photographer, official campaign period, senior activist, volunteer world, other housewives, electoral movement, prefectural assembly, ward chief, volunteer center, most housewives, branch representatives, advertising cars, housewife role
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520212916?v=glance   (1006 words)

  
 Ontological Argument [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
To say that a being necessarily exists is to say that it exists eternally in every logically possible world; such a being is not just, so to speak, indestructible in this world, but indestructible in every logically possible world - and this does seem, at first blush, to be a great-making property.
If a housewife has a set of extremely fragile dishes, then as dishes, they are inferior to those of another set like them in all respects except that they are not fragile.
Those of the first set are dependent for their continued existence on gentle handling; those of the second set are not.
www.iep.utm.edu /o/ont-arg.htm   (6211 words)

  
 Retro Housewife - Putting pride back into the housewife!
We want to stay home, take care of our kids, our husbands and give them the attention they deserve.
This site may not be for everyone, but if you want to be a retro housewife, you have come to the right place!
Retro Housewife: The site that questions whether "Having it ALL" i.e.
www.retro-housewife.com   (178 words)

  
 Just A Housewife
The work of a housewife is never done
So, the next time you meet a ‘housewife’ and at the thought you baulk
Just remember, she is not, ‘just a housewife’ after all!
www.kavitanjali.com /pgaug04/justa.htm   (97 words)

  
 Hillbilly Housewife
Previously featured articles may be found in Other Goodies
I'm Miss Maggie, the owner and creator of the Hillbilly Housewife.
The focus here is on low-cost, home-cooking from scratch.
www.hillbillyhousewife.com   (1691 words)

  
 The Rebel Housewife - Sherri's Rebel Blog: The Writing Life
Lifestyle humor from The Rebel Housewife: Anecdotes, observations, experiences--kids, family, men, cars, life, pets, tattoos...And now a reality blog: The Writing Life.
Not a chance--that’s one day We The Parents will definitely be at school to cast our vote.
Sherri Caldwell is a humor columnist and reviewer at www.RebelHousewife.com>, and the co-author of The Rebel Housewife Rules: To Heck With Domestic Bliss!
www.rebelhousewife.com /sherris-rebel-blog-the-writing   (2689 words)

  
 Housewife Stuff
I am a housewife, from the suburbs...are you scared yet?
Why never to be The Big Scary Housewife's house guest
A picture of The Big Scary Housewife's True Love
www.geocities.com /SoHo/2141/speak.htm   (37 words)

  
 The Little House Encyclopedia
The series version of "Little House" had the Ingalls finally establishing life in a small town called Walnut Grove, Minnesota.
There, they would meet their "harvest of friends" from a good-natured minister to a loner-turned-family man, from a pesky housewife to a hard-working lumber man. At the helm of its run was the heart and soul of the show, Michael Landon, who served as executive producer for the entire run of the series.
His good friend and co-star, Victor French, also had a hand in directing.
www.geocities.com /hiphats/lhotp1.html   (1383 words)

  
 Zombie Housewife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Yeah, but when I asked him, "What do you think?
That Lucie's going to go to school and all of a sudden I'm gonna clean and cook all day and be this perfect housewife?"
I really don't see what choice I have.
www.livejournal.com /users/zombiehousewife   (2913 words)

  
 Desperate Housewives - Home
Gabrielle causes a prison riot while visiting Carlos, Lynette learns that Parker has an imaginary friend, and Susan helps Mike search for Zach.
Check out our store for more Housewife merchandise!
Featuring desktops and icons of your favorite character!
abc.go.com /primetime/desperate   (76 words)

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